QALŪNYA – JERUSALEM DISTRICT
31°47′39″N / 35°9′27″E
1948: Population 1,056; Houses 260
Occupation date: April 11, 1948
Occupying forces: 4th Battalion of the Palmach (Palmāḥ)
Occupying operation: Operation Naḥshon
Post 1948: On the day of the occupation, Palmach units were ordered to kill everyone they found in the village, which was at the time held by foreign irregulars; the inhabitants having fled on April 2. That day and the next, Haganah units blew up the village.26 In 1956 Mevaseret Yerushalayim was established on village land by immigrants from North Africa; in 1963 village land was joined with the settlement of Ma‛oz Tziōn (lit., “Stronghold of Zion”), established in 1951, to become a suburb of Jerusalem called Mevaseret Tziōn.
Today: The shells of several houses remain in the southwestern section of the village, along with the cemetery, which rests amid stone rubble and parts of collapsed buildings. A portion of the village site is within the Telem Springs National Park. Amidst the rubble of the former village are the village terraces, with almond, fig, and olive trees, along with cacti at the bottom of the slope.
Official Israeli name: None. The village has no official name and does not appear on contemporary maps of Israel.