Al-Jura
الجورة | |
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 a ruined house, one of the last remains of the village | |
| Etymology: The water hole[1] | |
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  Al-Jura Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°45′25″N 35°08′56″E / 31.75694°N 35.14889°E | |
| Palestine grid | 164/129 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,158 dunams (4.158 km2 or 1.605 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 420[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Ora[5] |
Al-Jura (el Jurah) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 11, 1948, under Operation Danny. It was located 8.5 km west of Jerusalem. al-Jura was mostly destroyed with the exception of several deserted houses.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 296
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #355. Gives both cause and date of depopulation as "Not known".
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 298