Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 32)
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- Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 32)
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Village Statistics 1945
(vii) Leased to others than Arabs or Jews 2,656 593
(viii) Earmarked for communal or public use 4,713 —
(ix) Uncultivable sand, marsh or rocks 167,429 —_
(x) Unoccupied, including ‘paper’ claims — 84,699
(xi) Available for and offered on short
term lease 20,082 —
Totals: 615,961 926,719
Grand Total: 1,542,6808
Explaining the above figures, the statement stated that,
“It will be seen from a comparison of items (iti) and (iv) with
items (v) and (vi) that the Jews have a substantial advantage over
the Arabs in the matter of leases of State Domain which was at the
free disposal of Government. The occupiers of Government land
under item (ii) are Arabs; their right to occupation derives from
the Ottoman regime and has never been seriously in dispute; the
figure of 105,340 dunums covers lands, such as the sandy wastes
of Rafah, which, although within the areas of Arab occupation,
include considerable patches of land at present uncultivable. Even
taking the areas under item (ii) into account, however, the posi-
tion, on the proportions of each community to the total population,
is in favour of the Jews. The figure of 619,858 dunums under
item (i) includes forest reserves and consequently may include land
which is claimed by private persons and which at land settlement
may be found not to belong to Government. Item (x) contains an
assortment of claims not yet verified even as to area or locality; they
derive from various vague Turkish registrations or old records left
by the Turks. Item (ix) may appear to be a subject for experimental
development, but if it had been possible to transform anything from
this item to item (xi) that would have been done for revenue pur-
poses. The figure of 167,429 includes 105,000 dunums of marshy
or rocky land surveyed during the operations of the Ghor Mudaw-
wata commission; some of this may be allocated for afforestation
or grazing and some may in due course become the subject of devel-
opment leases and, in the case of the Beisan lands, of schemes for
the consolidation of holdings. The remainder is rocky land in the
Nazareth and Ramle sub-districts or sand-dunes in the Gaza area.
The figure of 20,082 dunums given in item (xi) represents the
(3) A Survey of Palestine 1945-1946, Vol. I, Chapter VIII, p. 267.
The above figure of 1,542,680 dunums stated by Government to be State Domain
almost coincides with the figure of 1,539,111 dunums for Palestine, excluding the
Beersheba sub-district, shown in the ‘Village Statistics 1945.’ Table I reduces this
figure by 49,700 dunums on which were planted citrus, bananas and other fruit trees.
belonging to Arab farmers. - تاريخ
- سبتمبر ١٩٧٠
- المنشئ
- Hadawi, Sami
- هداوي، سامي
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