Al-Muwaylih

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Al-Muwaylih
المويْلح
Village
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Al-Muwaylih
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°07′17″N34°55′27″E / 32.12139°N 34.92417°E / 32.12139; 34.92417
Palestine grid 142/169
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Jaffa
Area
[1]
  Total
3,342  dunams (3.342 km2 or 1.290 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
  Total
360 [2] [1]
Current Localities Neve Yarak [3]

Al-Muwaylih (Arabic : المويْلح, El Muweilih) was a Palestinian village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.

History

British Mandate era

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities Malalha had 37 Muslim inhabitants. [4]

In the 1945 statistics the population numbered 360 Muslims, [2] who had a total of 3,342 dunams of land. [1] Of this, 949 dunums were planted with citrus and bananas, 27 dunums were plantations and irrigable land, 1,796 were for cereals, [5] while a total of 194 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas. [6]

1948, aftermath

Neve Yarak is located, partly on Al-Muwaylih land, and partly on land formerly belonging to Jaljuliya. [3]

By 1992, it was described: "The site is very difficult to identify. Some of the houses still stand, deserted, amidst wild vegetation. One of them belonged to Hashim al-Jayyusi, who later became a Jordanian cabinet minister. It is a two-storey, concrete structure with rectangular doors and windows and a stairway in front that leads to the second storey. The other villas have been reduced to rubble. The land in the area is cultivated." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  2. 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  3. 1 2 3 Khalidi, 1992, p. 251
  4. Mills, 1932, p. 17
  5. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 96
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 146

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