Jibla

Jibla is called the city of two rivers, because it is located between two large rivers, flowing in summer and winter. Five stone bridges were thrown across the rivers. ^[3]

Jibla was a wealthy trading city, a center for the study of Islam. ^[3] Many of its buildings date back over three centuries. ^[3] Its narrow streets lie between five-story houses built of local stone of gray-pink tones. ^[3]

There are 48 mosques in the city, 30 of them are intended for men, the rest for women. In the city center, next to the market, stands the minaret of the 16th-century mosque As-Sunna. ^[3]

Some of the buildings of the Queen Arva Palace have survived to this day. Next to them is the Queen Arw Museum. ^[3]

The city of Jibla was founded in 1066 by the local sultan on the orders of King Ali al-Sulaihi . According to legend, the city was named after the potter who lived here in ancient times. ^[3]

Times of Queen Arwa

After the death of the ruler of the Sulaykhid dynasty Ali al-Sulayhi in 1067, Ahmad, the husband of Arwa al-Sulayhi, became de jure ruler of Yemen , but he was unable to rule being paralyzed and bedridden. He gave all his power to his wife Arve . One of her first actions was to transfer the capital from Sana'a to Djibla in order to be in a better location in order to destroy Said ibn Najar and thus avenge the death of her stepfather.

When Queen Arva al-Sulaihi moved the capital to Djibla, Djibla was a small town built 25 years ago - just a little older than Queen Arva . ^[four]

Arve managed to destroy Said ibn Najjar , trapping him in 1088.

In 1088, King Ahmed built a palace in Jible for Arva , who was named Dar Al-E'z. ^{[3] The} old palace was rebuilt into a large mosque, where Queen Arva Bint Ahmad Ben Muhammad Al Sulayhi , who died in 1138 at the age of 92, was buried, and the mosque was named after her ^[3] - Queen Arva Mosque. ^[3]

According to information at the end of 2002, the 80-seat Jiblah Baptist Hospital, which stands on a hilltop among trees, then treated more than 40,000 patients a year and provided free care to the poor. Hospital workers said 64 foreigners, including 25 Americans, were included in the medical staff as missionaries. ^[5]

December 30, 2002, at about 8:15 a.m., a Yemeni killed three American missionaries in a hospital. He slipped past the hospital’s security service, clutching a hidden weapon like a child. He entered the room in which the director of the hospital held a meeting and opened fire around 08:15 in the morning. Killing three people with headshots who died instantly, the shooter went to the pharmacy and shot a pharmacist in the stomach there. ^[5]

The following were killed:
- Kathleen Gayrieti, 53, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
- Doctor Marta Myers, 57, Montgomery, Alabama - worked in Yemen for 24 years;
- Director of the hospital, William Kyung, 60, Arlington, Texas - planned to resign in October of that year after 28 years of work in the hospital. ^[5]

Yemeni authorities arrested the attacker. It turned out to be 30-year-old Abed Abdul Razak Kamel ( English Abed Abdul Razak Kamel ). ^[5]

When American investigators joined in the search for the organizers of the killings, Yemeni investigators said the accused of killing three American missionaries may have ties to al-Qaeda . ^[5] The FBI team arrived in Djibla on December 30, 2002 and worked all night. The American diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that American investigators did not seem to be allowed to directly ask questions to the arrested person on suspicion of murder, but the Americans were "very close" to the interrogation. ^[5] In past investigations into cases of attacks on Americans here, Americans who worked with the Yemenis also complained about restricting access to suspects. ^[5]

The US Embassy said on December 31, 2002, that it would be too early to talk about the presence of terrorism in yesterday’s events at the Baptist hospital. But Yemeni Prime Minister Abdul-Kader Bajammal said the killings are on the list of terrorist acts that he submitted to parliament that day. Yemeni investigators had strong suspicions that the accused gunman had links to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. Yemen is the ancestral home of bin Laden and was fertile ground for recruiting them. ^[5]

Yemen was a key front in the US-led war on terrorism, and the Yemen government signed a partnership agreement in Washington after the attacks of September 11, 2001. ^[5]

The bodies of two murdered Americans, Martha Myers and William Köhn, were buried on December 31, 2002 in Djibla, where they worked for more than two decades, and where the attack occurred on them. Kathleen Gayrieti's body was shipped by US plane. ^[5]

Pharmacist Donald Caswell, 49, from Lowelland, Texas, was recovering from surgery, as his father said. ^[5]

• Queen Arva Mosque , or Friday Mosque , or the Great Mosque in Djibla , or the Hurrat-ul-Malaika Mosque
• Bayt az-Zum Mosque or Qubbat (Dome) Bayt az-Zum Mosque
• The ruins of the palace of Queen Arva
• Queen Arw Museum

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