- Al-Jammama
Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
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date=May 22, 1948Al-Jammama ( _ar. الجمامه) is a former Palestinian village located in the Naqab Desert 30km west of the city of Beersheba.
Archeological sites
The village contained cisterns, an olive press, mosaic floors, tombs, the crown of a stone column, stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic period.
Schools al-Jammama had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1944.Archeological sites
1948 Arab-Israeli War
During the
1948 Arab-Israeli War it was captured by Israel's Negev and Giv'ati brigades on May 22, 1948, and its inhabitants were completely ethnic cleansed. It was completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.See also
References
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Beersheba/al-Jammama/index.html
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