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Village in Baysan, Mandatory Palestine
Masil al-Jizl
مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي
Arab al-Zinati
Village
1870s map
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Masil al-Jizl is located in Mandatory Palestine
Masil al-Jizl
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 grid202/207
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulationMay 31, 1948
Area
 • Total976 dunams (97.6 ha or 241 acres)
Population
 • Total100
Current LocalitiesKfar Ruppin

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

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