Jubata ez-Zeit
Jubata ez-Zeit (Arabic: جباتا الزيت, Jubātā az-Zayt)[1] was a Syrian village situated in the far north of the Golan Heights. According to an Arab resident of a nearby town, it had a population of around 1,500 to 2,000 people prior to the forced expulsion of the town's residents in 1968.[2]
Jubata ez-Zeit
جباتا الزيت | |
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  Jubata ez-Zeit Jubata ez-Zeit in Syria  Jubata ez-Zeit Jubata ez-Zeit in the Golan Heights | |
| Coordinates: 33°15′N 35°44′E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Quneitra |
| District | Quneitra |
| Subdistrict | Mas'ade |
| Region | Golan Heights |
| Destroyed | 1967 |
| Elevation | 979 m (3,215 ft) |
| Population (1967) | |
| • Total | 1,500−2,000 (individual estimate) |
Etymology
Jubata ez-Zeit is an Arabic name that translates into English as "olive oil pit," and refers to the olive trees that grew in the village which remain present today.[3]
History
1967 and aftermath
About half of the residents of Jubat ez-Zeit fled during the fighting in the Six-Day War of June 1967. The remaining half were expelled from the Golan Heights by the Israeli Army after the war,[2] and the village was razed.[4] One year after the war, in 1968, the area was declared a closed military zone.[2]
In the early 1970s, the Israeli settlement of Neve Ativ was built on the site of the former village.[5]
Geography
Jubata ez-Zeit was located in a wadi whose name was transcribed by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith as Wady Khǔshābeh during their travels in the region in the mid-19th-century. The wadi extends out to the southwest from the base of the southwestern peak of Jabal esh-Sheikh.[6]
Notable residents
- Marwan Habash[1] (born 1938), Syrian Baath Party politician and writer
References
- Hanna Batatu (1999). Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics (Illustrated ed.). Princeton University Press. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-691-00254-5.
- Murphy & Gannon 2008, p. 149
- Dar 1993, p. 168
- Murphy & Gannon 2008, p. 163
- Murphy & Gannon 2008, p. 151
- Robinson & Smith 1857, p. 405
Bibliography
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 641)
- Murphy, Ray; Gannon, Declan (2008). "Changing the Landscape: Israel's Gross Violations of International Law in the Occupied Syrian Golan". Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law. Cambridge University Press. 11: 139–174.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Batatu, H. (1999). Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics (Illustrated ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00254-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1857). Later Biblical researches in Palestine, and in the adjacent regions: a journal of travels in the year 1852 (2nd ed.). Crocker and Brewster. p. 405.
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External links
Further reading
- Ray Murphy: Forgotten Rights: Consequences of the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. in David Keane and Yvonne McDermott (eds.): The Challenge of Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton 2012, pp. 138–163. Article focusses on Jubata ez-Zeit.
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