Ayn al-Mansi

Ayn al-Mansi (Arabic: عين المنسي‎, Ein el Mansî) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin of the Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated as a result of a military attack in mid-April during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.[1]

Ayn al-Mansi

عين المنسي

'Ein al-Mansi
Village
Etymology: "forgotten well"
Ayn al-Mansi
Coordinates: 32°35′36″N 35°10′38″E
Palestine grid166/222
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJenin
Date of depopulationmid-April 1948[1]
Area
 • Total1,295 dunams (1.295 km2 or 320 acres)
Population
 (1945[2][3])
 • Total90
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

History

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ein el Mansi had 73 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 15 houses.[4]

In the 1945 statistics, Ayn al-Mansi had a population of 90 Muslims,[2] and the jurisdiction of the village was 1,295 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 186 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 868 dunams were used for cereals,[5] while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[6]

1948 and aftermath

Ayn al-Mansi became depopulated after Military assault in mid-April 1948.[1]

References
  1. Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #386. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  2. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Also gives total land area in dunums.
  4. Mills, 1932, p. 68
  5. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148

Bibliography
  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Khalidi, W. (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, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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