As of 1947, Jews in Palestine owned UNDER 7% of Palestine's lands, and after the 1948 war 80% of the Palestinian people were DISPOSSESSED of their homes, farms, and businesses. Scroll below for the source and tabular break down of land ownership. It should be noted that as of 1948, Jews were 1/3 of the total population and only 1/3 of those gained Palestinian Citizenship!
Share of Palestinian vs. Jewish land ownership as of April 1st, 1943
Category of land |
Palestinians & others | Jews | Total |
Dunums (1000 sq. meters) |
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Urban | 76,662 | 70,111 | 146,773 |
Citrus | 145,572 | 141,188 | 286,760 |
Bananas | 2,300 | 1,430 | 3,730 |
Rural built-on area | 36,851 | 42,330 | 79,181 |
Plantation | 1,079,788 | 95,514 | 1,175,302 |
Cereal land (taxable) | 5,503,183 | 814,102 | 6,317,285 |
Cereal land (not taxable) | 900,294 | 51,049 | 951,343 |
Uncultivable | 16,925,805 | 298,523 | 17,224.328 |
Total area: |
24,670,455 | 1,514,247 | 26,184,702 |
Percentage |
94.22% | 5.8% | 100% |
Roads, railways, rivers, and lakes | 135,803 | ||
Total Area including roads, railways, etc. |
26,320,505 |
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Source: A Survey of Palestine prepared by the British Mandate for the UN, p. 566. If you are interested in a lot more details; we urge you to examine our Village Statistics Project; here we got the boring details about every Palestinian square kilometer.
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Land ownership in all of mandated Palestine in 1945:
By Sub district - Acre: 87% Palestinian owned, 3% Jewish owned, 10% state owned; Safed: 68% Palestinian owned, 18% Jewish owned, 14% state owned; Haifa: 42% Palestinian owned, 35% Jewish owned, 23% state owned; Nazareth: 52% Palestinian owned, 28% Jewish owned, 20% state owned; Tiberias: 51% Palestinian owned, 38% Jewish owned, 11% state owned; Jenin: 84% Palestinian owned, less than 1% Jewish owned, 16% state owned; Beisnan: 44% Palestinian owned, 34% Jewish owned, 22% state owned; Tulkarm: 78% Palestinian owned; 17% Jewish owned, 5% state owned; Nablus: 87% Palestinian owned, less than 1% Jewish owned, 13% state owned; Jaffa: 47% Palestinian owned, 39% Jewish owned, 14% state owned; Ramleh: 77% Palestinian owned, 14% Jewish owned, 9% state owned; Ramallah: 99% Palestinian owned, less than 1% Jewish owned, less than 1% state owned; Jerusalem (West and East): 84% Palestinian owned, 2% Jewish owned, 14% state owned; Gaza: 75% Palestinian owned, 4% Jewish owned, 21% state owned; Hebron: 96% Palestinian owned, less than 1% Jewish owned, 4% state owned; Bersheeba: 15% Palestinian owned, less than 1% Jewish owned, 85% state owned. (Source: Village Statistics, Jerusalem: Palestine Government, 1945; subsequently published as United Nations Map no. 94b, August, 1950; found in Before Their Diaspora, by Professor Walid Khalidi, Harvard.)
48% of the total land area of mandated Palestine was privately owned ('mulk khaas') by Palestinian Arabs. Total Jewish privately owned land was between 6% and 7%. About 45% of the total land area was state owned (i.e., by its citizens)* and it was comprised of Communal Property ('mashaa'), Endowment Property, ('waqf'), and Government Property, ('miri'.) The British Mandate kept an extensive land registry & the UN used the registry during its early deliberations. It has in its archives 453,000 records of individual Palestinian owners defined by name, location & area.
*Only 30% of Jewish immigrants had taken our citizenship and tens of thousands were illegal immigrants.
The point is I can find which village was captured, destroyed and or the people expelled.
I am unable to find the date when this happened for instance Tiberius 23 April (during the Mandate, Kfer Byram in the 1950's
it is important to know what was done during the Mandate and what the UK and UIn did about it.