ADMIN JUNE 22, 2026 UNCATEGORIZED 0 COMMENTS
I was visiting my dear friend Abdullah Hamouda last Thursday evening (June 18), where I visited him in his house near my house, both of which are in Al-Rawabi neighborhood of the western neighborhoods of Amman, which is located west of Abdullah Ghosh Street.
In the well-known village “Beit Djin”, one of the villages of the Jaffa district in Palestine, Abdullah Hamouda saw the light. It was one day in the first month of 1942.
Beit Djin is located in a vital location from the coastal plain, southeast of the city of Jaffa, and about (6) kilometers from the center of this city. The village is a meeting point for vital transportation routes linking Jaffa to Lad, Ramle and Jerusalem.
This “Beit Djin” is an agricultural village par excellence, and the village witnessed in 1920, with the efforts of its people, the establishment of the first primary school in the village: Beit Djin Amiri School for boys, followed in 1933 by the establishment of the first school for girls.
Over time, the boys’ school developed to include upper classes up to the seventh grade, and the school was distinguished by hosting a library that included about (600) books, this is with an agricultural plot of land with an area of (15) dunums that was used to train students on the origins of agricultural engineering and practical agriculture (information derived from Google).
It is worth mentioning in this regard that education in this village was associated with the names of prominent teachers and sheikhs who laid the first building block for education, the most famous of which was Al-Azhari Sheikh Mustafa Abbas Hamouda (who founded the first books and education in the village), and teachers from the village and neighboring Palestinian cities were alternated with teaching in that era. The intellectual activist Abdul Hadi Mohammed Hamouda, who graduated from the American University and was appointed director of the Arab section of a British company in Jaffa, and was one of the founders of the “Arab Youth Club” in Beit Djin, which formed an important cultural and political forum for the village.
The population of the village in 1948 was about (4,500) people, most of whom worked in agriculture, olive presses, and orange sorting and packaging stations in the village, which were exported to European countries through the port of Jaffa.
From 1920 until the Nakba in 1948, the residents of the village of Beit Djin were involved in the struggle against the British occupation / mandate of Palestine, and formed local defense committees that participated in confronting the attacks of the Balmah and Haganah gangs that targeted the Jaffa-Jerusalem general road adjacent to the village, and coordinated the village rebels with Commander Michel Al-Issa and his soldiers. The heroic defense of the village and the area surrounding it continued until the last moment before moving to the Abu Kabir neighborhood in the heart of Jaffa.
Therefore, Beit Djin was one of the villages of the Jaffa district, which was subjected to a concentrated campaign of Zionist terrorism in April 1948, interspersed with the bombing of the village and its surroundings, accompanied by a siege that ended with ethnic cleansing not only for the residents of Beit Djin, but also for the residents of Jaffa and the villages of its district.
This campaign began on April 25, 1948 with the occupation of the city of Jaffa and a number of surrounding villages and ended on April 30 of the same year with the fall of “Beit Djin” into the hands of the Zionist terrorist forces, followed by the displacement of the residents of the village and neighboring villages, where the majority of families initially resorted to Palestinian cities and nearby neighboring villages such as Lod, Ramle, but after the fall of these two towns in July 1948, the people were forced to migrate again on foot towards the city of Ramallah and to the east towards Jordan, and the Hamouda family was one of the families that headed east in July 1948 and arrived To the village of Sweileh near Amman before moving later and settling in the city of Amman.
At the “Beit Djin Amiri School for Boys”, the child Abdullah Hamouda began to receive his primary education. After arriving in Amman, Abdullah completed his basic and then secondary education and passed any “Al-Matrk” exam in 1960. This exam was the last exam organized in Jordan according to this system before moving to the guidance education system.
The University of Jordan had not yet opened in that year (1960), forcing Abdullah to move to the West Bank from Jordan and complete his higher education at Bir Zeit College in Ramallah. There, and from this well-known and distinguished college, and in 1963, Abdullah obtained his senior degree in public administration sciences.
In Amman and in 1959, Abdullah Hamouda belonged to the “Arab Nationalist Movement”, which was led at that time by educated, distinguished and well-known figures in Jordanian society, including Hamad Al-Farhan, Najib Al-Rashdan, Muhammad Toukan and others. Since his involvement in the ranks of this movement, Abdullah has never left the field of national action and political struggle.
Abdullah Hamouda; the son of this struggling village; “Beit Djin”, has a long history in national work, and he is a well-informed and in-depth intellectual on the circumstances of the Palestinian issue and the Arab national issue, and a lecturer in it, and has written articles and research. He is also an active member of the Jordanian Writers Association and its committees.
In addition to his organic involvement in political struggle work, Abdullah worked in the field of advertising and media, and his office until this time hosted the headquarters of the Democratic Thought Forum, which was founded in the early 1990s and chaired multiple courses.
Abdullah Hamouda is known for his own library, which is a rich library of rare books and historical documents, and he recently decided to donate it to several parties that have received the “National Library” in Jordan, including the lion’s share, and each of the libraries of a number of leftist and nationalist parties received his share of it.
Al-Siddiq Abdullah; Eighty-year-old; He suffered an accident at home in November of last year (2025) that led to a fracture in the femur of his right leg, which resulted in the installation of a metal nail to connect the fracture that occurred in that bone, and since then until he regained his ability to walk freely on his feet, Abdullah is moving these days using a “medical walk”.
His health status led him to take a decision to distribute his books and documents in the thousands to national institutions and parties.
Let’s pray for friend Abdullah to recover and longevity.
I was reading Abdullah’s daily, which I had published on Thursday, June 18, 2026, in which I dealt with – before I started writing this introduction about “Abdullah Hamouda” and about “Beit Djin” – I say, I was reading to him what I reported that journal about the testimonies of Palestinian witnesses who gave before the “English-American Commission of Inquiry regarding the “Problems of the Jews of Europe and Palestine” in the period between 6 and 28 March 1946 during the committee’s visit to Palestine – that is, those problems that Jews were facing in refugee and displacement camps in Europe after the war was put The Second World ceased and the fighting stopped on May 6, 1945, as well as “those “problems” that the Jews were facing in Palestine at that period.
We talked about the names of the witnesses whose names were received on June 18. In this regard, Abdullah wondered and said: But there are other witnesses and other Palestinian personalities who played a vital role at that stage… What, for example, about Muhammad Ezzat Darwza, Musa Al-Alami, Ahmed Al-Shaqiri, Anton Atallah, Ezzat Tannus, Akram Zaiter, Adel Zaiter, Ahmed Helmy Abdul Baki..!
We found ourselves immersed in a wide discussion, we had to resort to “Chat GPT” to extract more information, and we took to submit what we discussed and extracted to scrutiny and scrutiny, and to trial as well, and after two hours of interaction and discussion, we found ourselves with a huge amount of information collected.
In order not to prolong this diary more, I decided to be content with this amount of information in it, provided that I complete the discussion that Abdullah and I discussed in the next daily.
And the rest of the talk
Abdulrahman Al-Bitar
Amman – 22 June 2026