Masil al-Jizl

Masil al-Jizl
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°E / 32.45417; 35.55722Coordinates: 32°27′15″N 35°33′26″E / 32.45417°N 35.55722°E / 32.45417; 35.55722
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

  1. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p.55
  2. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
  3. 1 2 Counted with Kefar Ruppin, in Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  4. 1 2 Khalidi, 1992, p. 56
  5. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31
  6. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 79
  7. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 85
  8. ↑ 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.
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