Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

The name refers to the Jammasin tribe, a plural form of the Arabic word "jammas", meaning a water buffalo grower. Al-Sharqi is an adjective which means "the eastern", pertaining to the eastern part of the tribe.{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |last2=Zadok |first2=Ran |date=2023 |title=Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552) |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cs6f5k5 |journal=Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins |language=en |volume=139 |issue=2}}

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Al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads from the Jordan Valley. In 1596, a Jammasin (Masra'at Hasana) tribe appear in the Ottoman census, located in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus, paying taxes on goats, beehives and water buffalos. Khalidi writes that judging from the absence of taxes on any crops, this Masra'at (farm) probably specialised in short-distance herding and semi-nomadic tasks.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 141. Cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 245 The tribe was known to have settled in the area by the 18th century.

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the tribal area of Jammasin had a population of 200 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n22/mode/1up 20] while in the 1931 census Jammasin esh-Sharqiya had 395 Muslim inhabitants.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 17]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi consisted of 730 Muslims and the land area was 358 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this land, Arabs used 53 dunams for citrus and bananas, 193 for plantations and irrigable land, 40 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jaffa/Page-095.jpg 95] while a total of 18 dunams were non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jaffa/Page-145.jpg 145]

The children attended school on Al-Shaykh Muwannis.

In December, 1947, Jewish agents reported that Arabs were leaving the Al-Jammasin villages.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA67 67] In December 1947 and January 1948 the leaders of al-Shaykh Muwannis, Al-Mas'udiyya, Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi/Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi, and the mukhtars of Ijlil al-Qibliyya, Ijlil al-Shamaliyya and Abu Kishk met with Haganah representatives in Petah Tikva. These villages wanted peace, and promised not to harbor any Arab Liberation Armies or local Arab Militia. They further promised that, in the case they were not able to keep them out alone, they were to call on Haganah for help.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&l&pg=PA91 91] The Jammasin villages, together with Abu Kishk, also jointly approached a Jewish police officer at Ramat Gan.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&l&pg=PA92 92], note #143, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&l&pg=PA145 145]

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/al-Jammasin-al-Sharqi/index.html Welcome To al-Jammasin al-Sharqi]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49087 al-Jammasin al-Sharqi], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8375 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.13.jpg Wikimedia commons]

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