Al-Jaladiyya الجلدية אל-ג'לדיה | |
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Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°41′55″N34°44′59″E / 31.69861°N 34.74972°E | |
Palestine grid | 126/122 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Gaza |
Date of depopulation | Not known [1] |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 360 [2] [3] |
Al-Jaladiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948, by the Giv'ati Brigade. It was located 34 kilometres northeast of Gaza.
The Crusades built a castle in the village. There was a school located in the village mosque (built 1890), and when it opened its doors in 1945 it had an enrollment of 43 students.