Welcome To Masil al-Jizl - مسيل الجزل (عرب الزيناتي) (מסיל אל-ג'זל)

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Occupation Date

May 31, 1948

Distance From District

6 (km) South East of Baysan

Elevation

-250 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #22 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Golani Brigades

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village was completely obliterated and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Masil al-Jizl inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	976
Jewish	2,222
Public	2,675
**Total	5,873

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	252	1,249
Planted W/ Cereal	1,149	877
Built up	0	40
Arable	1,401	2,126
Non-Arable	2,250	56

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	197
1945	280 (180 Jewish)
1948	116 (180 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998	712

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	47
1948	47

Inhabitants Place of Origin

The village was initially founded by members of the 'Arab al-Zinati Bedouin tribe.

Archeological Sites

Masil al-Jizl has few Khirbas which contains pottery fragments, flint artifacts, the foundations of buildings, and the remains of a small mosque.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Kefar Ruppin

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on flat terrain and overlooked a wide, open area to the east, beyond which was the Jordan Valley. Two fords (makhadat ) across the Jordan called Makhadat al-Turaykhim and Makhadat al-Saghir constituted its gateway to the Jordan Valley in the east. One secondary road linked it to Baysan and another connected it to a highway leading from Baysan to Transjordan.

Masil al-Jizl was initially founded by members of the Arab al-Zinati Bedouin tribe. Some of their houses were scattered among the various springs from which they drew their water; others were clustered along the roads linking Masil al-Jizl to Baysan and other villages. Most of these houses were made of adobe and cane. The villagers were Muslims and earned their livelihood by cultivating crops such as grains and vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 702 dunums was allocated to cereals; 252 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. To the south of the village stretched the katar , a narrow strip of waste land along the Jordan, which was marked by palm trees growing along its edges. At least three archaeological sites flanked Masil al-Jizl: Tall al-Qitaf, Khirbat aI-Hajj Mahmud, and Tall al-Shaykh Dawud. They contained pottery fragments, flint artifacts, and the foundations of buildings. The remains of a small mosque were found nearby, at Tall al-Shaykh Muhammad al-Qabu, in 1929.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Although no specific information about the occupation of Masil al-Jizl is available, it can reasonably be assumed that the village was occupied at the same time as other villages on the Jordan River in the vicinity of Baysan. Most of those communities were overrun by the Golani Brigade at the end of May 1948. The villagers may have been expelled to Transjordan, as were other inhabitants of the area.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Zionists established the settlement of Kefar Ruppin to the north of the village in 1938 on what was traditionally village land.

Village Today

The site is partly covered by fish ponds and by warehouses that belong to the kibbutz of Kefar Ruppin. Wadi Masil al-Jizl passes through this kibbutz.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.

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