Al-Hamma
الحمّة El Hamma, El Hammé | |
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Former railway station of Al-Hamma, with a sign in Arabic reading "al-Hama".[1] | |
Coordinates: 32°41′10″N 35°39′51″E / 32.68611°N 35.66417°E | |
Palestine grid | 212/232 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Tiberias |
Date of depopulation | July 1949 |
Area | |
• Total | 1,692 dunams (1.692 km2 or 418 acres) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 290[2][3][4] |
Current Localities | Hamat Gader |
Al-Hamma (Arabic: الحمّة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southeast of Tiberias. It was situated on a narrow salient in the Yarmouk Valley bounded by Syria to the north and Transjordan to the south and east. Al-Hamma was one of the stations on the Jezreel Valley railway, linking the Hejaz Railway to Haifa.[4] It was depopulated twice, once in July 1949, and again between 1949 and 1956.