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To a house bearing the number 74 in Al -Safa Street in the village of Beit Safba, south of Jerusalem, Al -Jazeera Net headed to meet the doctor Muhammad Jad Allah, the witness to divide this village with a thorny fence on the lands of the people in the years between the years of the Nakba and the setback.
In mid -April 1949, the “Rhodes” ceasefire agreement was signed, after which the village was divided with a border strip separating the sons and homes of one family into two Israeli and Jordanian parts.
The Israeli occupation forces fired heavy bullets of automatic weapons for a period of 15 minutes while invading Beit Saffa, reinforced with a few pants, after the mayors and the protector of the garrison refused to sign the skinning of part of the village and annexed it to the “modern Jewish” state.
One day after entering the village, the Israeli forces began setting up the barbed wire that penetrated and divided the main Beit Safova Street and the village into two parts according to the armistice agreement between Jordan and Israel, known as the “Rhodes Agreement”.
The main motivation for the inclusion of part of Beit Saffa was the greed of the occupation in the railway line that passes from the village and links Jerusalem with the cities of the coastal plain, and thus the section from which the railway passed under Israeli rule and the other under Jordanian rule until 1967 in which Israel occupied the east of Jerusalem.
“The first blatant event”
Before we entered the house of the doctor, Jad Allah, whose eyes saw the light in late 1941, this elderly was keen to inform us about the location of the house in which he was born, and which was only 300 meters from the border.
Once you enter the house and exhumed his memory from the most important periods of this village, many pain stories lived in him, his nuclear family and his extended family in light of the forced division.
He started his speech by saying, “You put me in the distant memory area that remains alive with every human being, so what I will say as if I see him in front of my eyes now … and I would like to start from the first blatant event I lived and returned to February 1947, when the Zionist gangs attacked the bombs and bullets the house in which my married sister was living.”
The people of the village – including Muhammad and his father, Issa Jad Allah – rushed to the site of the event, and they witnessed the martyrdom of a young man from the village because of that attack, and he is one of the night battles that were erupted on a daily basis on the lands of Beit Safafa, which are adjacent to settlements.
The village did not fall into the battles of the Nakba
This elderly indicated that the village did not fall during the battles of the Nakba because all its children are young and men who are able to carry weapons bought guns and bullets at their own account and engaged in the battles, while women, children and the elderly were temporarily displaced to the neighboring city of Beit Jala for a period not exceeding one and a half years.
Despite the forced displacement, Jadallah states that he was accompanying his mother Mary on a daily trip to Beit Saffa to provide some stored food, cooking tools or goods, stressing that none of the people did not expect that a entity would be established on his land, and that the battles will inevitably lead to the murder of the occupation.
But the winds took place with what the ships of the people of Beit Safafa did not desire. At the end of 1948, the whisper began between them that the village would surrender to the new occupied entity, until the news was rumored about the “Rhodes” treaty. On the day that the Jordanian and Israeli parties met in the middle of the village, Muhammad accompanied his father as well as most of the people there.
Jadallah said, “I presented an Israeli military vehicle, from which an officer met a Jordanian last and exchanged conversation, and then began the de facto measures through the border strip, which Israel imposed its borders to ensure control of the railway line,” Jad Allah said.
The width of the main street in the village did not exceed 4 square meters, which swallowed the so -called popular dialect, about two meters from the width of the street, according to Jad Allah, and this prevented communication permanently between the people in the Jordanian and Israeli parts.
Two -thirds of the village lands became under the rule of the Israeli occupation with only a third of the population, and two thirds of the population were restricted to the Jordanian side of the border with only a third of the land area, and according to the division, the Jadallah family became on the Jordanian side of the border and most of its lands on the Israeli side.
Harsh treatment
When asked about the details of daily life during the division period, he started his answer by saying, “This is a difficult question, and in order to be accurate, the treatment of Jordanians to us was harsh and similar to what I read about the Ottoman In the Ottoman army and how he was treating the Palestinians.”
The people were deprived of the Jordanian part of any grocery to buy their needs, and they had to go to the city of Bethlehem to shop.
But before the launch, they had, according to Jad Allah, to go to the “writer” to whom the citizen says, “I will buy a kilo of flour and another of lentils and vitamin of sugar and 250 grams of meat, and after the list of purchases is submitted to the Jordanian officer, either to agree to it, reject it or write off from it as removing a kilo of sugar and keeping the other.
“The Jordanian soldiers’ claim at the time that the people of Beit Safafa buy more than they need to provide the enemy (in reference to the occupation army) and on the way back from Bethlehem, the buyer must stop at the Jordanian military barrier before entering the village, and if the military is illiterate, he does not read the list of purchases and compares it to what was brought in, but if he is good at reading, he searches everything that the people carry and damaged everything The list is in front of their eyes. ” As the Jerusalem doctor says.
The observation did not stop there.
Sadness buried
The revival of occasions or participation in weddings and weddings was not less cruel to the people of this village, and in his memory, Jad Allah recounts how the popular songs that were associated with the joys of Beit Saffa during the division were expressing a buried and deep sadness.
Jad Allah says, “Because we are only happy with military orders, and with observation of the officers stationed on both sides … As for the funerals, silence and mutual crying prevailed during the sides of the tape,” Jad Allah said.
This doctor tells a stream of stories that he lived from 1949 until his departure from the country in August 1960 towards Kuwait, where he worked for 5 years before he started his journey to Spain to study medicine, then specializes in the field of cardiac surgery and lungs.
Jad Allah returned in 1975 to Jerusalem, and was prevented from traveling, so he resumed his work as a doctor in the Makassed Hospital for decades, and after his retirement, he started working as a volunteer doctor in the clinics of Al -Aqsa Mosque, and at the Arab Health Center in Jerusalem, and he is still at the top of his work to this day.