Al-Jammama

Al-Jammama (الجمامه) is a former Palestinian village located in the Naqab Desert 30km west of the city of Beersheba.

Archeological sites

The village contained cisterns, an olive press, mosaic floors, tombs, the crown of a stone column, stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic period.

Schools al-Jammama had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1944. Archeological sites

1948 Arab-Israeli War

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War it was captured by Israel's Negev and Giv'ati brigades on May 22, 1948, and its inhabitants were completely ethnic cleansed. It was completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.

See also

References

http://www.palestineremembered.com/Beersheba/al-Jammama/index.html