Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 27)

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 27)

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The Land and Its Ownership
Mr. Granott remarks: “If we add up all these figures, we shall find that
no less than 90.6 per cent of all acquisitions were of land which formerly
belonged to large landowners, while from fellaheen only 9.4 per cent was
purchased.’’25
Corroboration of the fact that the majority of the lands acquired by the
Jews during the period of the Mandate were from non-Palestinian absentee
landlords, is contained in a memorandum dated 25 February 1946 submitted
by the Arab Higher Committee to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
on its arrival in Palestine. Dr. Yusif Sayegh, the signatory of the memoran-
dum, listed the areas acquired, as compiled from a field survey, conducted
at the time, 77 only a part of Palestine as 461,250 dunums out of a total area
of 1,491,699 of which 841,699 dunums were purchased during the period of
the Mandate. “The real total area sold this. way,” Sayegh explained, “is
definitely more’; he commented: ‘The fuller the data, the less the blame to
attach to Palestinian Arabs.”
The information contained in the memorandum, because of its importance,
is given hereunder:
Land Sales to Jews in Palestine by Non-Palestinian Absentee Landlords
Name of Seller Area (Dunums) Locality
Lebanese
Heirs of Salim Ramadan 3,000 Hittin
Heirs of Jammal and Milki 2,500 Nimrin
Ghulmia and Jbara 4,000 Zuq et Tahtani
Emir Chehab family 1,100 Khalisa
Francis family 3,000 Dafna
Shab‘a villagers 1,500 Khan el Dweir
Debki and Shams families 1,600 Ed Dawwara
Farha family 1,400 Ez-Zawiya
Chehab family 1,300 En-Na‘ima
Farhat and Bazza families and 9,000 Qaddas
Mardinis (of Syria)
Pazza family 3,500 El-Malakiya
Ahmad el As’ad 2,000 El Manara & Udeisa
Moitenes villagers 1,200 Jabal Meimas
Father Shukrallah 900 Qaddita
Father Shukrallah 700 Yarda
Deishum villagers 1,100 Hawwara
Ali Salam 41,500 Hula Concession Area
Najib Sursock 26,500 Tell el Firr & Jalloud
Sursock family 240,0001° Marj ibn ‘Amer (Plain
of Esdraelon)
(15) Ibid., Table 32, p. 277.
(16) This sale displaced 1746 Arab farmer families comprising 8730 persons (See
The Shaw Commission Report 1930 (Cmd .3530), p. 118).
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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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