page_title: Bashshit
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Bashshit / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Gedera &amp; Qatra 1930 1:20,000
context_page_description: Bashshit, also Beshshit, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 16.5 kilometers southwest of Ramla about half a mile from wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Islamic period and 12th and 13th centuries. Mentioned by Arab geographers from the 13th century onward, there was a tomb for the Neby Shit in the village.
  Like much the rest of Palestine, Bashshit was ruled by the Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and the British. It was depopulated at the beginning of the 1948 Palestine war during Operation Barak. Along with the villages of Barqa, Bayt Daras, al-Batani al-Sharqi, and al-Maghar, among others, Bashshit was attacked by Haganah's Givati Brigade. Following its depopulation, Bashshit was mostly destroyed. There are seven Israeli localities now situated on what were the village lands.
context_section_description: During the British Mandate period, Bashshit had an elementary school, built in 1921, in which 148 students were enrolled in the mid-1940s. The village had a mosque and several artesian wells. Most of the residents were farmers.
  In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bashit had a population of 936; all Muslims,  increasing in the 1931 census to 1,125, still all Muslims, in a total of 333 houses.  By 1945, the population had increased to 1,620, the population being entirely Arab in ethnicity. The village comprised a total area of 18,553 dunums.
  A large number of inhabitants were employed in cereal farming, which occupied most of the land area. Some land was also allocated for irrigation and plantation, and the growing of citrus fruits and olives.
  
  
   
  Types of landuse in dunams by Arabs in the 1945 statistics:
   
  The land ownership of the village before occupation in dunams:
caption: Bashshit 1930 1:20,000
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