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.
Masil al-Jizl
مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي Arab al-Zinati[1] | |
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Village | |
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  Masil al-Jizl Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°27′15″N 35°33′26″E / 32.45417°N 35.55722°E | |
| Palestine grid | 202/207 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Baysan |
| Date of depopulation | May 31, 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 976 dunams (97.6 ha or 241 acres) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 100[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Kfar Ruppin[4] |
History
editThere were several archeological sites in the vicinity, including Tall al-Qitaf, Kh. al-Hajj Mahmud and Tall al-Shaykh Dawud.[4]
British Mandate era
editIn 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 the 1945 statistics, 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]
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Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1946 -
Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1938
Village land currently used by Kfar Ruppin.
References
edit- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.55
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
- ^ a b Counted with Kefar Ruppin, in Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
- ^ a b 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
edit- 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.
External links
edit- Welcome To Masil al-Jizl
- Masil al-Jizl, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons
