Kafr Jinnis

The site has been inhabited since at least the Roman period.^[1] Its name derives from the Greek personal name Γενναῖος/ Γέννιος (“high-born, noble").^[2]

In 1552, Haseki Hürrem Sultan, the favourite wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, endowed a quarter of the tax revenues of Kafr Jinnis to its Haseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem. Like neighnboring Jindas, the village belonged administratively to District of Gaza.^[3]

In 1596, Kafr Jinnis was home to 18 Muslim households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives, a total of 8,600 akce, all paid to a waqf.^[4]

During the era of the British Mandate for Palestine, Kafr Jinnis railway station was built by the British military as part of a branch of the Eastern Railway to Al-Lubban [he] during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I; Kafr Jinnis was where the branch diverged from the Eastern Railway proper (see: Airport City railway station).^{[citation needed]}