Masil al-Jizl

Masil al-Jizl مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي Arab al-Zinati [1]
Village
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Masil al-Jizl Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°27′15″N35°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; 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]

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  Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1946
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  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.

External links

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