al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine

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al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine was a Palestinian Arab village near Ashkelon that existed under the British Mandate and is notably recognized as the birthplace of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Palestinian Arab village
Palestinian Islamist leader
former populated place
birthplaceOf Ahmed Yassin NERFINISHED
category Former Palestinian populated places in Israel
causeOfDestruction 1948 Arab–Israeli War NERFINISHED
coFounderOf Hamas NERFINISHED
country Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED
demolishedOrAbandoned 1948
hasCoordinateLocation 31.65N 34.55E
hasHistoricalEvent military operations during 1948 Arab–Israeli War
hasLanguage Arabic
hasNameInArabic الجورة NERFINISHED
hasNotablePerson Ahmed Yassin NERFINISHED
hasTransliteration al-Jūra NERFINISHED
hasTypeOfSettlement rural village
historicalSovereign Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Gaza subdistrict NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Coastal plain of Palestine NERFINISHED
Southern Palestine NERFINISHED
locatedInTimePeriod British Mandate period NERFINISHED
locatedNear Ashkelon NERFINISHED
locatedNorthOf Gaza City NERFINISHED
locatedSouthOf Jaffa NERFINISHED
locatedWestOf Hebron NERFINISHED
nearbyModernLocality Ashkelon, Israel NERFINISHED
partOf villages depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
placeOfBirth al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED
populationMajority Palestinian Arabs NERFINISHED
religionMajority Islam
subsequentTerritorialEntity State of Israel NERFINISHED
timeOfDepopulation late 1940s

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Sheikh Ahmed Yassin placeOfBirth al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine