Jahula was depopulated during the
1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. Benny Morris writes that the cause of depopulation is unknown, while the American Historian Rosemarie Esber gives as depopulation cause: "Direct mortar attacks on civilians, siege, shooting at fleeing Arabs".<unk> Benny Morris writes that the cause of depopulation is unknown, while the American Historian Rosemarie Esber gives as depopulation cause: "Direct mortar attacks on civilians, siege, shooting at fleeing Arabs".