Ijzim
إجزم Ikzim[1] | |
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 Ijzim mosque | |
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  Ijzim Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°38′41″N 34°59′17″E / 32.64472°N 34.98806°E | |
| Palestine grid | 149/227 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | 24–26 July 1948[4] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 2,970[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Kerem Maharal[5] |
Ijzim (Arabic: إجزم) was a Palestinian village in the Haifa Subdistrict of British Mandate Palestine, 19.5 kilometers south of Haifa, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Many residents resettled in Jenin after Operation Shoter on 24 July 1948.[6]
Families from Ijzim include the Madis, the Nabhanis and the Alhassans. Collectively, these families owned over 40,000 dunams (40 km2) of land, making the village one of the richest in Palestine.[7]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 146
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 48
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. XVIII, village #167. Morris also gives cause(s) of depopulation.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. XXII, settlement #119.
- ^ "Welcome to Ijzim". Palestine Remembered.
- ^ Benvenisti, 2000, pp. 207 -208