Jimzu

Jimzu
جمزو
Gimzo
Etymology: Sycamore[1]
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Jimzu is located in Mandatory Palestine
Jimzu
Jimzu
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°55′51″N 34°56′47″E / 31.93083°N 34.94639°E / 31.93083; 34.94639
Palestine grid145/148
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulation10 July 1948[4]
Area
 • Total9,681 dunams (9.681 km2 or 3.738 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,510[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesMoshav Gimzo[5]

Jimzu (Arabic: جمزو), also known as Gimzo (meaning "sycamore plantation"), was a Palestinian village, located three miles southeast of Lydda. Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan of Mandatory Palestine, Jimzu was to form part of the proposed Arab state.[6] During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the village was depopulated in a two-day assault by Israeli forces.

Under the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jimzu's lands fell under the de facto governance of the newly created state of Israel. A year later, moshav Gimzo was established at the site of the former village and is now populated by 700 Israeli Jewish residents.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 230
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #230. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 387
  6. ^ Map of UN Partition Plan Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine