ISRAEL ELÄKÖÖN - ISRAEL MUST LIVE!

Yksitäisten arabikylien tyhjennystapahtumia Israelin itsenäisyyssodassa.

Al-Ja'una

At midnight on 5/6 June 1949, the remaining villagers in Al-Ja'una (together with those of Al-Khisas and Qaytiyya) were surrounded by Israeli Defence Force units, who then forced the villagers into trucks “with brutality . . - with kicks, curses and maltreatment…“ (in the words of Knesset member and Al HaMishmar editor Eli’ezer Pra’i) and dumped them on a bare hillside near the village of ‘Akbara.[7] When questioned about the expulsions, Ben-Gurion responded that he found the military reasons for the evictions "sufficient".[8]

‘Akbara served as a "dumping spot" for the "remainders" from various depopulated Palestinian villages, and its conditions were to remain bad for years.[9]

Walid Khalidi, writing in 1992 about the remains of Al-Ja'una, stated: "The settlement of Ro’sh Pinna occupies the village site. Many of the houses remain; some are used by the residents of the settlement; other stone houses have been abandoned and destroyed."[6]