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Welcome To 'Islin - عسلين (עיסלין)

District of Jerusalem
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for 'Islin Village - Palestine: : A village house or wall on the site today
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date July 18, 1948
Distance From District 21 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation 280 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #15 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Dani
Attacking Units Possibly Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains 'Islin was completely defaced, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing 'Islin inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 2,157
Jewish 0
Public 2
**Total 2,159
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 104
Olive Groves 25
Planted W/ Cereal 830
Built up 20
Arable 934
Non-Arable 1,205
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 77
1931 186
1945 260
1948 302
Est. Refugees 1998 1,852
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 49
1948 79
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Eshta'ol
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a hill on the southern slope of a mountain, facing southeast. A wadi ran along its western and southern perimeters. 'Islin was about 1 km west of the highway between Bayt Jibrin (a large village in the Hebron sub-disctrict) and the Jerusalem−Jaffa highway. Dirt paths linked it to nearby villages. 'Islin was divided into two main sections, one to the east and one to the west. New construction extended to the north. The village is identified with the sixteenth-century village of 'Islit which was mentioned in the Ottoman tax records for that time. It was in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) and had a population of seventy-seven. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, and fruit trees as well as on goats and beehives. In the 1870s the village was uninhabited; the ruins of the sixteenth-century village were still visible. It was probably repopulated sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century.

The residents of 'Islin were Muslims, and they built their houses of stone and mud. Springs and wells provided drinking water and crops were rainfed. The economy was based on grain, fruit trees, olive trees, and vineyards. In 1944/45 a total of 830 dunums was allotted to cereals; 104 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The agricultural lands lay north and southeast of the village site.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The only information available about 'Islin is that it fell to the Israeli army in a limited offensive that was implemented as part of Operation Dani (see Abu al-Fadl, Ramla sub-district). Along with a chain of other villages, it was mortared and captured by Israeli troops on 17−18 July 1948, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Eshta'ol (150132), founded in 1949, is on land belonging to 'Islin and the neighboring village of Ishwa'.

Village Today

Partially destroyed walls and stone terraces can be seen throughout the site. A thick forest, bushes, and grass grow over and around the stone rubble. Many carob trees and some olive trees grow on the northern edge of the site, and eucalyptus and fir trees grow in the south. The Jewish National Fund (the land purchase and development body of the World Zionist Organization ) has established a plant nursery on the southern edge of the village. The site also houses a bus repair yard belonging to the Israeli public transportation cooperative, Egged.

Source

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

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