Al-Ja'una
Al-Ja'una
الجاعونة Jaauneh | |
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Village | |
The village overlooked the Jordan Valley | |
| Etymology: from personal name | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Ja'una (click the buttons) | |
Al-Ja'una Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°58′18″N 35°31′58″E / 32.97167°N 35.53278°E | |
| Palestine grid | 200/264 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | 9 May 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 839 dunams (83.9 ha; 207 acres) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 1,150 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Forced removal |
| Current Localities | Rosh Pinna |
Al-Ja'una or Ja'ouna (Arabic: الجاعونة), was a Palestinian village situated in Galilee near al-Houleh Plateau, overlooking the Jordan Valley. The village lay on a hillside 450–500 meters above sea level, 5 kilometers east of Safad near a major road connecting Safad with Tabariya. The village had its Arab residents expelled by Zionist forces in 1948 and was thereafter resettled by Jews, becoming a part of the Israeli settlement of Rosh Pinna.