Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi الجمْاسين الغربي | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: The western buffalo breeders[1] | |
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  Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi Location withinMandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates:32°05′34″N34°47′50″E / 32.09278°N 34.79722°E /32.09278; 34.79722 | |
| Palestine grid | 131/166 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Date of depopulation | March 17, 1948[4] |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 1,080[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was aPalestinian Arab village in theJaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 17, 1948. It was located 6.5 km northeast ofJaffa.
The name refers to the Jammasintribe, aplural form of theArabic word "jammas", meaning awater buffalo grower. Al-Gharbi is anadjective which means "the western", pertaining to the western part of the tribe.[5]
Al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads from theJordan Valley.[1] In 1596, a Jammasin tribe appear in theOttomancensus, located in theNahiya of Bani Sa'b of theLiwa ofNablus, paying taxes on water buffalos.Khalidi writes that it is not certain that this was the same tribe that settled the two Jammasin villages.[6] The tribe was known to have settled in the area by the 18th century.[1]
In the1922 census of Palestine conducted by theBritish Mandate authorities, the tribal area of Jammasin had a population of 200Muslims,[7] while in the1931 censusJammasin el-Gharbiya had 566 Muslim inhabitants.[8]
In the1945 statistics the population of Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi consisted of 1,080 Muslims[2] and the total land area was 1,365dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this land, Arabs used 202 dunams for citrus and bananas, 151 for plantations and irrigable land, 173 for cereals,[9] while a total of 149 dunams were non-cultivable areas.[10]
The children attended school onAl-Shaykh Muwannis.[1]
In December, 1947, Jewish agents reported that Arabs were leaving the Al-Jammasin villages.[11] In December 1947 and January 1948 the leaders ofal-Shaykh Muwannis,Al-Mas'udiyya,Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi/Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi, and themukhtars ofIjlil al-Qibliyya,Ijlil al-Shamaliyya andAbu Kishk met withHaganah representatives inPetah Tikva. These villages wanted peace, and promised not to harbor anyArab Liberation Armies or local Arab Militia. They further promised that, in the case they were not able to keep them out alone, they were to call on Haganah for help.[12] The Jammasin villages, together with Abu Kishk, also jointly approached a Jewish police officer atRamat Gan.[13]
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