Al-Ja'una

Al-Ja'una
الجاعونة
Jaauneh[1]
Village
The village overlooked the Jordan Valley
The village overlooked the Jordan Valley
Etymology: from personal name[2]
1870s map
1940s map
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1940s with modern overlay map
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Al-Ja'una is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Ja'una
Al-Ja'una
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°58′18″N 35°31′58″E / 32.97167°N 35.53278°E / 32.97167; 35.53278
Palestine grid200/264
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation9 May 1948[5]
Area
[4]
 • Total839 dunams (83.9 ha or 207 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,150[3][4]
Cause(s) of depopulationForced removal
Current LocalitiesRosh Pinna

Al-Ja'una or Ja'ouna (Arabic: الجاعونة), was a Palestinian village situated in Galilee near al-Houleh Plateau, overlooking the Jordan Valley. The village lay on a hillside 450–500 meters above sea level, 5 kilometers east of Safad near a major road connecting Safad with Tabariya. The village had its Arab residents expelled by Zionist forces in 1948 and was thereafter resettled by Jews, becoming a part of the Israeli settlement of Rosh Pinna.[6]

  1. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP 1, p.198
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 72
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  4. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ According to Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #52. Also gives the cause of depopulation
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference khalidi459 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).