Masil al-Jizl

Masil al-Jizl مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي Arab al-Zinati^[1]
Village
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Masil al-Jizl (click the buttons)
Masil al-Jizl Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°27′15″N 35°33′26″E / 32.45417°N 35.55722°E / 32.45417; 35.55722
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]

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 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]

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

Village land currently used by Kfar Ruppin.

References

↑ Khalidi, 1992, p.55
1 2 Government of Palestine, 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.
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

Welcome To Masil al-Jizl
Masil al-Jizl, Zochrot
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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