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Al-Jiyya
Sign in to saveal-Jiyya (, also transliterated Algie) was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 19 kilometers northeast of Gaza City and had a population of 1,230, according to a 1945 survey. The village was occupied by Israel's Giv'ati Brigade on 4 November 1948 during Operation Yoav.
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית חוף אשקלון
- Region
- מחוז הדרום
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 970
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Gaza Subdistrict
- Population
- 1230
- Area
- 8.5
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- native label
- الجِية
- replaced by
- Ge'a
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1948-11-05
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- 1948 War, and aftermath
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al-Jiyya (, also transliterated Algie) was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 19 kilometers northeast of Gaza City and had a population of 1,230, according to a 1945 survey. The village was occupied by Israel's Giv'ati Brigade on 4 November 1948 during Operation Yoav.
== History == The village was situated on a sandy spot, surrounded by hills, on the southern coastal plain. Several wadis descended around it and it was periodically subjected to flooding. This, perhaps, explains its name, which means "water collector" in Arabic. The village has been identified with a town referred to in the Crusader records as "Algie".
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