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Masil Al-Jizl
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.

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, increasing in the 1931 census to 197 Muslims, in a total of 47 houses.

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 100 Muslims, with a total of 976 dunams of land. Of this, 252 dunams were for plantations and irrigated land, 702 for cereals, while 22 dunams were non-cultivable land.

  • Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1946
    Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1946
  • Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1938
    Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1938

Village land currently used by Kfar Ruppin.

References

  1. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.55
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
  3. ^ Counted with Kefar Ruppin, in Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  4. ^ 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.
  • 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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