Al-Jaladiyya

Al-Jaladiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948, by the Giv'ati Brigade. It was located 34 kilometres northeast of Gaza.

Al-Jaladiyya

الجلدية
אל-ג'לדיה
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Al-Jaladiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°41′55″N 34°44′59″E
Palestine grid126/122
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictGaza
Date of depopulationNot known[1]
Population
 (1945)
  Total360[2][3]

The Crusades built a castle in the village. There was a school located in the village mosque (built 1890), and when it opened its doors in 1945 it had an enrollment of 43 students.

al-Jaladiyya 1930 1:20,000
al-Jaladiya 1945 1:250,000

References

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #289. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"
  2. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

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