Islin

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Field	Value
name	Islin
native_name	عسلين
native_name_lang	ar
etymology	Honey
pushpin_map	Mandatory Palestine
pushpin_mapsize	200
coordinates
grid_name	Palestine grid
grid_position	150/132
subdivision_type	Geopolitical entity
subdivision_name	Mandatory Palestine
subdivision_type1	Subdistrict
subdivision_name1	Jerusalem
established_title1	Date of depopulation
established_date1	18 July 1948
established_title2	Repopulated dates
population_as_of	1945
population_total	260
blank_name_sec1	Cause(s) of depopulation
blank_info_sec1	Military assault by Yishuv forces
blank3_name_sec1	Current Localities
blank3_info_sec1	Eshtaol
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Islin () was a Palestinian Arab village located 21 kilometers west of Jerusalem. The village had a population of 302 inhabitants and was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was occupied by Israeli forces, possibly from the Fourth Battalion of the Harel Brigade, on 18 July 1948 during Operation Dani, causing its inhabitants to leave. Eshtaol, a moshav, was built on the village's land.

History

In 1596, Islin appeared as Islit in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Jaffa. It had a population of 14 Muslim households, an estimated 77 people, who paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, and goats or beehives; a total of 4,700 akçe.

In the later 1870s the place was uninhabited, with ruins of a village still visible, and with a Mukam. It was probably re-established at the beginning of the century.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Islin had a population 132, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 186; in a total of 40 houses.

In the 1945 statistics the population was 260, all Muslims, Of this, 104 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 830 for cereals, while 20 dunams were classified as built-up areas.

1948 Arab–Israeli War and after

Islin, along with four other villages, were overtaken by the Israeli Harel Brigade on 17–18 July 1948 in Operation Dani. The villages had been on the front line since April 1948 and most of the inhabitants of these villages had already left the area. Many of those who stayed fled when Israeli forces attacked and the few who remained at each village were expelled.

File:Kasla 1943.jpg|Islin 1943 1:20,000 (left) File:Yalu 1945.jpg|Islin 1945 1:250,000 (lower left quadrant) File:Latroun (10 mai).png|Islin May 10, 1948

Of the site in 1992, Walid Khalidi writes: "Partially destroyed walls and stone terraces can be seen throughout the site. A thick forest, bushes, and grass grow over and around the stone rubble. Many carob trees and some olive trees grow on the northern edge of the site, and eucalyptus and fir trees grow in the south. The site also houses a bus repair yard belonging to the Israeli public transportation cooperative, Egged."

References

Bibliography

References

Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/284/mode/1up 284]
Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR18 xviii], village #330. Also gives the cause for depopulation
Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p24.jpg 24]
Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR19 xix], settlement #78. 1949
Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 152
Conder and Kitchener, 1883, [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/83/mode/1up III:83]. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.295
Khalidi, 1992, p. 295
Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n17/mode/1up 15]
Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 40]
while the total land area was 2,159 [[dunam]]s, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jerusalem/Page-057.jpg 57]
Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jerusalem/Page-102.jpg 102]
Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jerusalem/Page-152.jpg 152]
Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA436 436]

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