al-Yamun
Municipality type B
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicاليامون
al-Yamun is located in State of Palestine
al-Yamun
al-Yamun
Location of al-Yamun within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°29′11.35″N 35°14′06.98″E / 32.4864861°N 35.2352722°E / 32.4864861; 35.2352722
Palestine grid171/210
StateState of Palestine State of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Area
 • Total20,361 dunams (20.4 km2 or 7.9 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total20,774
 • Density1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Name meaningFrom a personal name[2]

Al-Yamun (Arabic: اليامون) is a Palestinian town located nine kilometers west of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank. Al-Yamun's land area consists of approximately 20,000 dunams, of which 1,300 dunams is built-up area.[3]

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 16,383 inhabitants in the 2007 census and 20,774 by 2017.[1][4] The population is formed mainly of a number of families such as Frehat, Khamaysa, Samudi, Hushiya, Abu al-Hija, Samara, 'Abahra, Zaid, Jaradat, Sharqieh and Nawahda that sourced many inspirational figures such as Jad and Ayham Frihat.[3]

History

The town is an ancient one, where two columns and two capitals have been reused at the door of the mosque.[5]

Potsherds from the early and late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.[6]

Ottoman era

In 1517 al-Yamun was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain.[7][8]

In the census of 1596, the village appeared as “Yamoun”, located in the nahiya of Sha'ara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 28 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 15,000 akçe.[9] Potsherds from the Ottoman era have also been found here.[6]

In 1799, al-Yamun was named the village Ellamoun on the map Pierre Jacotin made during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.[10]

In 1838 Edward Robinson noted it on his travels,[11] and in 1870 Victor Guérin found that Yamun had 500 inhabitants, and was divided into two quarters, each commanded by its own sheikh.[12]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[13]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as “A large village, with olives round it, standing on high ground, with a well on the east. This appears to be the 'Janna of the Onomasticon,’ 3 miles south of Legio; does not exactly agree, being 7 English miles."[14]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yamun had a population of 1,485; all Muslims except one Christian[15] who was Orthodox.[16] The population increased in the 1931 census to 1,836; all Muslim, in a total of 371 houses.[17]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 2,520; all Muslims,[18] with 20,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[19] 6,036 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 11,121 dunams for cereals,[20] while a total of 58 dunams were built-up, urban land.[21]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, al-Yamun came under Jordanian rule. Some of al-Yamun inhabitants descended from Abu-Hija, a commander who came to Palestine with Saladin. After 1948, al-Yamun received fellow Abu-Hija descendants from the depopulated village of Ein Hod, presently in Israel.[22]

In 1961, the population of al-Yamun was 4,173.[23]

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Yamun has been under Israeli occupation.

On October 29, 2008, Muhammad 'Abahra, a farmer in the town was killed by the IDF. 'Abahra had a shotgun in his possession leading the IDF to believe he would fire at them. 'Abahra's son, however, alleged, that his father was guarding his sheep from suspected thieves.[24]

References

  1. 1 2 Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 156
  3. 1 2 Israeli army's terror and Sabotage actions in Al Yamun town, Jenin District Archived 2016-08-14 at the Wayback Machine Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2004-07-05.
  4. ↑ 2007 Locality Population Statistics. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
  5. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, pp. 748-9
  6. 1 2 Zertal, 2016, pp. 188-190
  7. ↑ al-Bakhīt, Muḥammad ʻAdnān; al-Ḥamūd, Nūfān Rajā (1989). "Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah". www.worldcat.org. Amman: Jordanian University. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  8. ↑ Marom, R.; Tepper, Y.; Adams, M. "Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine". Levant. doi:10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.
  9. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 160
  10. ↑ Karmon, 1960, p. 169 Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, pp. 161, 167
  12. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 225
  13. ↑ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
  14. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 46
  15. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  16. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
  17. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 71
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
  20. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100
  21. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 150
  22. ↑ Ben Ze'ev, 2011, p. 92
  23. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 13
  24. ↑ West Bank farmer killed by troops BBC News. BBC MMVIII. 2008-10-29.

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