Masil al-Jizl
Masil al-Jizl | |
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Masil al-Jizl | |
Arabic | مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي |
Also spelled | Arab al-Zinati[1] |
Subdistrict | Baysan |
Coordinates | 32°27′15″N 35°33′26″E / 32.45417°N 35.55722°ECoordinates: 32°27′15″N 35°33′26″E / 32.45417°N 35.55722°E |
Palestine grid | 202/207 |
Population | 100[2][3] (1945) |
Area | 976 dunams |
Date of depopulation | May 31, 1948 |
Current localities | Kfar Ruppin[4] |
Masil al-Jizl was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the Arab-Israeli War. It was attacked and depopulated on May 31, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon.
History
There were several archeological sites in the vicinity, including Tall al-Qitaf, Kh. al-Hajj Mahmud and Tall al-Shaykh Dawud.[4]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Mesil al-Jezel had a population of 64; all Muslims,[5] increasing in the 1931 census to 197 Muslims, in a total of 47 houses.[6]
In 1945, the population was 100 Muslims,[2] with a total of 976 dunams of land.[3] Of this, 252 dunams were for plantations and irrigated land, 702 for cereals,[7] while 22 dunams were non-cultivable land.[8]
References
- ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p.55
- 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
- 1 2 Counted with Kefar Ruppin, in Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
- 1 2 Khalidi, 1992, p. 56
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 79
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 85
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 135
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
External links
- Welcome To Masil al-Jizl
- Masil al-Jizl, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons