Al-Mas'udiyya

Al-Mas'udiyya
Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
Al-Mas'udiyya
Arabic
District	Jaffa
Coordinates	32°05′07.00″N 34°46′54.45″E / 32.08528°N 34.7817917°E / 32.08528; 34.7817917Coordinates: 32°05′07.00″N 34°46′54.45″E / 32.08528°N 34.7817917°E / 32.08528; 34.7817917
Population	850 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	December 25, 1947[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Mas'udiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village was previously known as Summayl.

In 1945, the village had a population of 850. al-Mas'udiyya had an elementary school for boys founded in 1931, and in 1945 it had 31 students.

References

1. ^ Morris, 2004, p.xviii, village #205. Also gives cause of depopulation.

Bibliography

• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html 
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5 
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521009676. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.