Ijlil al-Qibliyya
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 Ijlil al-Qibliyya
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| Arabic | إجليل |
| Name meaning | El Jelil, meaning "illustrious/grand" (Ar), or "a district/circuit"(He) |
| Also spelled | Jalil al-Qibliyya |
| 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 | 470 (1945) |
| Area | 8, 692 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | End of March- April 3, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Ijlil al-Qibliyya, also al-Jalil, 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.
In 1945 the village has a population of 680, 210 of which were Jewish. Ijlil al-Qibliya was named after al-Shaykh Salih 'Abd al-Jalil, whose maqam was located in the village.
Ijlil al-Qibliyya, (meaning "Southern Ijlil"), was located on a hilltop, 13 km (8 mi) northeast of Jaffa, and about 100 meters southwest of its sister village, Ijlil al-Shamaliyya ("Northern Jilil").
During the late Ottoman period, in June 1870, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited both villages. He described them as one village, 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 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 in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, the two Ijlil -villages (spelled Jelil) had a population of 154 residents, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 305, still all Muslim. In 1945 the population of Ijlil al-Qibliyya was 470 Arabs, with 8,692 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 923 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 85 for plantations and irrigable land, 7,087 for cereals, while 6 dunams were built-up land.
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