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Al-Jura ((アラビア語:الجورة)) was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located approximately two kilometers west of Majdal (both within the boundaries of present-day Ashkelon, Israel). In 1945, the village had a population of approximately 2,420 mostly Muslim inhabitants. Though defended by the Egyptian Army, al-Jura was nevertheless captured by Israel's Givati Brigade in a November 4, 1948 offensive as part of Operation Yoav. A 1998 estimate of the population of refugees today who are descendants of those who fled al-Jura, placed the figure at 17,000. The founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas organization Ahmed Yassin was born in al-Jura. ==History== In 1596, Al-Jura was part of the Ottoman Empire, ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Gaza under the ''liwa''' (district) of Gaza, named Jawra/Jawrit al-Hajja, and it had a population of 253.〔Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 150. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 116〕 The Syrian Sufi teacher and traveller Mustafa al-Bakri al-Siddiqi (1688-1748/9) visited Al-Jura in the first half of the eighteenth century, before leaving for Hamama.〔Khalidi, 1992, p. 116.〕 In 1863 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called ''Djoura,'' and found it to have three hundred inhabitants.〔Guérin, 1869, p. ( 134 )〕 In the late nineteenth century, the village of Al-Jura was situated on flat ground at the outskirts of Ascalon.〔Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. (236 ). Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 116〕 It was rectangular in shape and the residents were Muslim. They had a mosque and a school which was founded in 1919.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al-Jura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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