Ijlil
| Ijlil al-Shamaliyya | |
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 Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
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| Name meaning | El Jelil, meaning "illustrious/grand" (Ar), or "a district/circuit"(He) |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Coordinates | 32°09′36.00″N 34°48′42.35″E / 32.1600000°N 34.8117639°ECoordinates: 32°09′36.00″N 34°48′42.35″E / 32.1600000°N 34.8117639°E |
| Palestine grid | 132/174 |
| Population | 190 (1945) |
| Area | 2,450 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | End of March- April 3, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current localities | Glil Yam |
Ijlil al-Shamaliyya (Arabic: إجليل الشمالية Ijlīl aš-Šamāliyya) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 3, 1948.
Ijlil al-Shamaliyya, (meaning "Northern Ijlil"), was located on a hilltop, 15 km (9 mi) northeast of Jaffa, and about 100 meters north of its sister village, Ijlil al-Qibliyya ("Southern Jilil").
During the late Ottoman period, in June 1870, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited both villages. He described them as one unit called Edjlil, situated on a hill and divided into two districts. Together, they had 380 inhabitants. The houses were built of rammed earth or with different small aggregates mixed in with kneaded and dried silt. In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the two villages, named El Jelil, as "a mud village, with a well l to the south and a second to the north. [..] A small olive-grove exists to the south-east."
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the twin villages of Ijlil (spelled Jelil) had a population of 154, all Muslims, increasing by the 1931 census to 305, still all Muslim. In 1943 Glil Yam was founded on what was traditionally village land, to the east of the village site,
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