Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
الجمْاسين الغربي
Village
Etymology: The western buffalo breeders[1]
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Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°05′34″N 34°47′50″E / 32.09278°N 34.79722°E / 32.09278; 34.79722
Palestine grid131/166
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulationMarch 17, 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
1,080[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 17, 1948. It was located 6.5 km northeast of Jaffa.

  1. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 244
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #204. Also gives cause of depopulation.