Jaba', Haifa Subdistrict

Jaba'
Tomb of Shaykh Amir, Jaba, in 2011
Jaba'
Also spelled	Dscheba,[1] Jeba[2]
Subdistrict	Haifa
Coordinates	32°39′04.75″N 34°57′43.35″E / 32.6513194°N 34.9620417°ECoordinates: 32°39′04.75″N 34°57′43.35″E / 32.6513194°N 34.9620417°E
Palestine grid	146/228
Population	1140 (1945)
Date of depopulation	24–26 July 1948[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Geva Karmel[4][5]

Jaba' was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 24, 1948 as part of Operation Shoter. It was located 18.5 km south of Haifa.

A 1596 census revealed a population of 99 in the village. By 1945 this had increased to 1,140. Jaba' had an elementary school for boys, which was founded by the Ottomans in 1885. Mosaic remains, tombs cut into the rock, and other architectural features remain.

References

1. Mülinen, 1908, p.283
2. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP, II, p. 42
3. Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #168. Also gives cause of depopulation
4. Khalidi, 1992, pp. 166, 188
5. Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #120

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
• Buhl, Frants, (1896): Geographie des alten Palästina. p. 210 ff
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 42, 54)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
• Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von 1908, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels "Separateabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palëstina-Vereins Band XXX (1907) Seite 117-207 und Band XXXI (1908) Seite 1-258." ("Dscheba": p. 283 ff. )
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 147)

External links

• Welcome To Jaba'
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Jaba' at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center