Masil al-Jizl was a
Palestinian
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine.
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Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the
Israel Defense Forces
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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
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
, 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.][Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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File:כפר רופין - באופק נראה הירדן.-JNF032843.jpeg, Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1946
File:כפר רופין - מראה נוף ממסד, מרחוק הרי עבר הירדן ובקעת הירדן-JNF029069.jpeg, Masil al-Jizl view of tell 1938
Village land currently used by Kfar Ruppin.
References
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External links
Welcome To Masil al-Jizl Masil al-Jizl
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9
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Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War