Masil al-Jizl
مسيل الجزل/عرب الزيناتي
Arab al-Zinati[1]
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Village
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  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 grid | 202/207 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Baysan |
| Date of depopulation | May 31, 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 976 dunams (97.6 ha or 241 acres) |
| Population
(1945)
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| • 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.
There were several archeological sites in the vicinity, including Tall al-Qitaf, Kh. al-Hajj Mahmud and Tall al-Shaykh Dawud.[4]
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]
Village land currently used by Kfar Ruppin.
