1917 Jaffa deportation

Ahmed Jamal Pasha – the Turkish governor who initiated the deportation Jaffa deportation victims, Kfar Saba cemetery The Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation refers to the forcible deportation of the entire civilian population of Jaffa and Tel Aviv on April 6, 1917, by the Ottoman authorities in Palestine. While the Muslim evacuees were allowed to return before long, the Jewish evacuees were not allowed to return until after the British conquest of Palestine.

Ahmed Jamal Pasha , who ordered the expulsion Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation was the evacuation on April 6, 1917, of 10,000 people from Jaffa , including Tel Aviv , by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine. Two-thirds of the evacuees were Muslim and Christian, and one third were Jewish. Neither Jaffa-Tel Aviv, nor its Jewish population, had been singled out – the evacuation followed a similar event in Gaza a few months prior ahead of the advance of British forces . However, pro-Zionist propaganda subsequently turned the event into "a cause célèbre". The population affected by the deportation was able to return to their homes in the summer of 1918. After the first British assault on Gaza had been-barely-repulsed on March 28, 1917, Djemal Pasha ordered the evacuation of Jaffa, forty miles north along the coast, for security reasons. There was nothing unusual about this decision in and of itself: Gaza too had been evacuated back in February prior to the British assault on it, as indeed commanders have always done with population centers located near active military fronts to clear a line of retreat for the defending army in case a breakthrough occurs. The trouble in Jaffa began with the timing, during Passover, which inevitably raised the hackles of the city's large Jewish population, concentrated in the northern district known as Tel Aviv. Jews were not singled out in Djemal's evacuation order: most of the city's Arabs (Muslims and Christians alike) were deported too. In fact, protests from local Jewish leaders were strong enough that Djemal actually gave Jews an extra week to get their affairs in order before leaving on April 6- the same day, as it turned out, that the United States entered the First World War. In the event, some ten thousand Ottoman subjects were deported from Jaffa into inland, desert Syria in April 1917, of which about one-third were Jewish. It was not the finest hour for Djemal or the Ottomans, but in the context of deportations in the empire or elsewhere during the war, it was rather a minor affair. This is not, however, what the world would be told about Jaffa. Little noticed or reported at the time, Djemal's deportations from this small yet strategic town on the coast of Palestine were transformed, in the course of May 1917, into a cause célèbre of the world Zionist cause. The key figure in the transformation was Sir Mark Sykes…

Expulsion of 10,000 Jewish and Arab residents from Jaffa and Tel Aviv in 1917 Jamal Pasha , who ordered the expulsion Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation was the expulsion on April 6, 1917, of 10,000 people from Jaffa , including Tel Aviv , by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine. The evicted civilians were not allowed to carry off their belongings, and the deportation was accompanied by severe violence, starvation, theft, persecution and abuse. It is thought that about 1,500 of the evicted people died as a result of the deportation. Shortly after the deportation, the Muslims affected were able to return to their homes, but the Jewish population was not able to return until the summer of 1918. "CRUEL TO PALESTINE JEWS.; Turks Loot and Slay Victims Deported as a "Military Measure." " .