Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 19)

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 19)

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III - The Land and Its Ownership
PALESTINE COVERS an area of 27,027 square kilometres (10,435 square
miles) of territory of which 704 square kilometres (271 square miles) are
under water.
In terms of dunums, the land area comprises 26,323,023 dunums, and
the water area 704,000 dunums (Half the Dead Sea — 525,000 dunums, the
other half being in Jordan; Lake Tiberias or the Sea of Galilee — 165,000
dunums; and Lake Huleh — 14,000 dunums), making a total area of
27,027,023 dunums.
Table I, which is based on the figures in the ‘Village Statistics 1945,’
classifies the ownership of the 26,323,023 dunums of land as follows:
Arabs 12,766,524! or 48.50%
Jews 1,491,699 or 5.67%
Public 1,491,690 or 5.67%
The unassigned ‘uncultivable’ lands of
the Beersheba sub-district 10,573,110? or 40.16%
Table UW, classifies the ownership of the ‘Cultivable’ lands, which include
land planted with citrus, bananas and other fruit trees, fish ponds, and land
under cereal cultivation, as follows:
Arabs 7,797,129* or 84.70%
Jews 1,176,745 or 12.78%
Public 231,664 or 2.52%
Total 9,205,538
Table Ht deals with the ownership of town and village built-up areas
and lands classified for fiscal purposes as ‘Non-cultivable,’ that is, land which
was regarded as incapable of cultivation by the ordinary means of husbandry
(1) Of this 142,050 dunums, or 0.54 per cent, are owned by ‘Others.’
(2) An area of 49,700 dunums has been deducted from the column of ‘Public’ and
included under the column for ‘Arabs’ because the plantations thereon are owned by
the Arab cultivators who also possess hereditary tenancy rights over the land.
(3) This vast area appears in the ‘Village Statistics’ under the separate column of
‘Uncultivable Land’ as distinct from areas appearing under the column of ‘Public’
because any rights the Government may have claimed therein had not been settled
before the termination of the Mandate.
(4) Of this, 49,700 dunums of citrus, bananas and other fruit trees were recorded
in the ‘Village Statistics 1945’ under ‘Public’ and 81,604 dunums under ‘Others.’
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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine

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Hadawi, Sami

هداوي، سامي

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