Jahula

Jahula
جاحولا
Etymology: Ain Jahula=The spring of the large rock[1]
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Jahula is located in Mandatory Palestine
Jahula
Jahula
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°07′29″N 35°34′02″E / 33.12472°N 35.56722°E / 33.12472; 35.56722
Palestine grid203/281
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total3,869 dunams (3.869 km2 or 1.494 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total420[2][3]

Jahula (Arabic: جاحولا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945, the village had a population of 420. The village had one mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Salih.[5]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 62
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #23. Morris gives date and cause of depopulation with a questionmark
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference khalidi457 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).