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This seems to violate WP:NOR...I have therefore removed if from the article, Huldra (talk) 09:01, 8 October 2009 (UTC) :[reply]

Land & Demographics[edit]

Al-Ja'una was predominantly Muslim, in 1596 it had 171 residents, the number remained in the range of 140-200 throughout the 19th century. In 1931 the population totaled 799, and by 1945 totaled 1,150. Al-Ja'una was situated on a 839 dunam area, 824 of which owned by Arab families, 7 by Jewish families, and 8 public; 172 dunams of the village fields were irrigated. Main crops at the village were olives, grapes, figs, and grain. Villagers raised goats and maintained bee hives. The village population coexisted in total harmony with the nearby Jewish settlement of Rosh Pinna since 1882, both developing trade and social relationships. Relashins with neighbouring Rosh Pinna were strained following the influx of Zionist settlers from Eurpoe.

Village Setting[edit]

Ja'una village affairs were run by a village council. The village operated a water mill for grain and two olive presses (Arabic: معصرة الحاج عوض تميم ومعصرة علي جلبوط). The village had a mosque and a boys school, built by the Ottomans. Two springs, called Abu-Khalil and Na'asah (Arabic: نبع أبو خليل ونبع النعصة) provided drinking and irrigation water to the village. Most of structures in the village were constructed with Basalt stone in a style called “al-'illiyyeh” (Arabic: العلية): large rooms for daily household activities in the first floor, and small bedrooms in the second floor. The most recognized structure in the village was called the American House, which exists until today.

Village Council[edit]

The Village Council became most active between 1945 and 1948 when external threats became evident. The council had the responsibility of constructing and manning fortifications around the village, and caring for the needy. Members of the council represented the main families. It consisted of the following members in 1948:

Haj A'wad Tamim (Abu Huran) الحاج عوض تمیم—أبو حوران
Shhada Sa'ed A'mairi شحادة سعید عمایري
Kayed Shhada A'mairi كاید شحادة دخل الله
Sheikh Raja Kusa الشیخ رجا الكوسى
Ali Jalbout علي جلبوط
Mohammad Hussain Tamim (Abu Fahmi) محمد حسین تمیم—أبو فھمي
Yousef Hussain Dakhl-Allah (Abu Yusef) یوسف حسین دخل الله—أبو مصطفى
Ahmad Sa'ed A'mairi (Abu Khaled) أحمد سعید عمایري—أبو خالد
Ahmed Rashing Tayem (Abu Fawzi) أحمد رشید تیم—أبو فوزي
Fares Hassan Tamim (Abu Hassan) فارس حسن تمیم—أبو حسن
Haj Ibrahim A'mairi الحاج إبراھیم عمایري

The Village Council was headed by the Mukhtar, the following is a list of Mukhtars who headed the village in the 1930s and 1940's in ascending order:

Sheikh Mousa Shehadah—Abu Yunis الشیخ موسى شحادة—أبو یونس
Suleiman Hassan Tamim سلیمان حسن تمیم
Hussein Suliman Hassan Tamim حسین سلیمان حسن تمیم
Fares Hassan Tamim فارس حسن تمیم

The Exodus[edit]

The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War; an eye witness fom neighboring Rosh Pinna states: "Until this day I hear the voices of weeping women ring in my ears, as their families left Ja'una, leaving for Horan. Men rode donkeys as the women walked behind them -- their weeping filled the valley." ^[1]. Few families trickled back into Ja'una, but were forcibly evicted by the Israeli army on June 5, 1949 , along with 55 families from the villages of Al-Khisas (Arabic: الخصاص) and Qatiyya (Arabic: قيطية). Residents were loaded into Israeli army trucks and dumped at an arid location near the village of 'Akbara (Arabic: عكبرة), under Operation Yiftach lead by Israeli army officer Yigaal Alon who later became a key Zionist figure. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion stated in 1949 in response to Keneset member Aleazer Beri, of Mampam Party, opposition to the deportation: "I found the military justification sufficient."

Many of the residents and decedents of Al-Ja'una currently reside in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon; a village reunion was organized in October 2008 at the Yarmouk Refugee Camp near Damascus, Syria. The 1998 estimated number of original residents and decedents is estimated at 8,192 refugees.

References

^ http://www.nakbaonline.org/Safad/al-Ja%27una/index.html

Notable Residents[edit]

The most prominent among its residents was Abdallah Al-Asbah (Arabic: عبد الله الأصبح) who participated in the Syrian Revolt against French in 1925, lead in Al-Qassam Revolt in the Galilee (Izz ad-Din al-Qassam) in 1935, and the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine.

The title "Ja'ouni" is a reference to any native of Al-Jauna, and to a Jerusalem family with same surname.

pictures..[edit]

On the commons, under http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rosh_Pina, there are several pictures which are also pictured on the Pal.rem-site:

Rosh Pina images

is 17: [1]
is 21: [2]
is 23: [3]
is 24: [4]
To the right: the top of the "American house"

However, as someone has remarked on the Pal.rem-site [5], that house did not belong to Al-Ja'una, but to Rosh Pina *before* it expanded to incorporate the remaining Al-Ja'una-houses. The only picture I´m sure can be used in this article is the last one, showing (slightly!) the the top of the socalled "American house" -that house was pictured in Khalidi. Huldra (talk) 09:23, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

future expansion?[edit]

See p.74, Huldra (talk) 12:19, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

quotation needs context[edit]

Removed for now:

An eye witness from neighboring Rosh Pinna states: "Until this day I hear the voices of weeping women ring in my ears, as their families left Ja'una, leaving for Horan. Men rode donkeys as the women walked behind them -- their weeping filled the valley." (no citation)

This is from a much earlier period, when Rosh Pina was founded. Alan Dowty (2001). ""A Question That Outweighs All Others": Yitzhak Epstein and Zionist Recognition of the Arab Issue". Israel Studies 6: pp. 34–54. It needs some context and correct placement. It also suggests there is some story about those earlier times not being told here. Zero^talk 07:26, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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