Palestinian And Zionist Land Ownership Per District as of 1945

Palestinian And Zionist Land Ownership Per District as of 1945

Posted on SEPTEMBER-10-2001

As of 1947, Jews in Palestine owned UNDER 7% of the Palestine's lands, and after the 1948 war 80% of the Palestinian people were DISPOSSESSED of their homes, farms, and businesses. Scroll below for the source and tabular break down of land ownership.

Share of Palestinian vs. Jewish land ownership as of April 1st, 1943

Category of land (Fiscal categories)	Palestinians & others	Jews	Total
Category of land (Fiscal categories)	Dunums (1000 sq. meters)
Urban	76,662	70,111	146,773
Citrus	145,572	141,188	286,760
Bananas	2,300	1,430	3,730
Rural built-on area	36,851	42,330	79,181
Plantation	1,079,788	95,514	1,175,302
Cereal land (taxable)	5,503,183	814,102	6,317,285
Cereal land (not taxable)	900,294	51,049	951,343
Uncultivable	16,925,805	298,523	17,224.328
Total area:	24,670,455	1,514,247	26,184,702
Percentage	94.22%	5.8%	100%
Roads, railways, rivers, and lakes			135,803
Total Area including roads, railways, etc.			26,320,505

Click here to view the scanned page from which the above data were extracted.
Click here, for more tabular data about Jewish land ownership per district as of 1946.
Source: A Survey of Palestine prepared by the British Mandate for the UN, p. 566.

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