Jabbul

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Jabbul


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date=May 18, 1948

Jabbul ( _ar. جبول) is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab village located7 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade. [ [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Baysan/Jabbul/index.html Jabbul] , PalestineRemembered.com.]

On 7 June 1948, a platoon of Barak troops, commanded by Yitzhak Shusterman raided the village along with others in the area. The troops arrived by bus and took up position on a high point on the outskirts of the village and lobbed a few two-inch mortar rounds into its centre and then moved in and searched it. The troops encountered harvesters who ran off and " [...] opened fire but hit no [one] ". Arabs also fled from the village itself and the platoon "burned their crops and set alight several houses". [cite|author=Benny Morris|title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2004, pp. 261. Quotes from cite|author='Barak' Intelligence Officer to Golani Intelligence Officer|title=Report on Search/Patrol in the Villages: Danna, al Bira, Kafra, Jabbul, Yubla Murassas|date=June 8, 1948|publisher=IDFA 128/51//32 therein.]

In September 1948, Nahum Wurwitz of Kfar Gil'adi appealed in a letter for permission to destroy Jubba and other villages in the area for fear that they may be used by Arabs for military operations and to enable them to "take the village's lands, because the Arabs won't be able to return there". [cite|author=Benny Morris|title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2004, pp. 357. Quotes from cite|author=Peterzil to Erem, Bentov, Hazan and Cisling|date=August 10, 1948|title=quoting an extract from an undated letter from Faivel Cohen of Ma'ayan Barukh, to Peterzil|publisher=HHA-ACP 10.95.10(5) therein.]

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