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Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli WarDistrict of JaffaPages with non-numeric formatnum arguments
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Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on March 17, 1948. It was located 9 km northeast of Jaffa.

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Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
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N 32.098333333333 ° E 34.828888888889 °
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HaKishon 2
5120261 , Tel Giborim
Tel Aviv District, Israel
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