A sourced archive reading
Al-Jiyya appears on the pre-1948 administrative maps of the Gaza subdistrict as a Palestinian village, its people displaced on 5 November 1948. No source available to us attributes a specific embroidery stitch to the village, so this entry documents place and history rather than craft.
The source records a historical population of 1,230 people.
Palestine Open Maps / Institute for Palestine Studies — Al-Jiyya (accessed 26 July 2026)
This text is an editorial reading of the cited source, not a personal testimony or family account.