page_title: Summil
section_title: British Mandate of Palestine period
hierarchical_section_title: Summil / History / British Mandate of Palestine period
caption_attribution_description: English: Zeta 1948 1:20,000
context_page_description: Summil was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 36 kilometers northeast of Gaza. It was situated on a sandy hill in the coastal plain and had a population of 950 in 1945. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
context_section_description: During the British Mandate period, the village expanded toward the southwest and relied on al-Faluja for commercial, medical, and administrative services.
  In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Summail had a population of 561 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in  the 1931 census, to 692, still all Muslims, in  178 houses.
  In  the 1945 statistics  the population of Summeil consisted of  950 Muslims and the total land area was 19,304 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.  Of this, a total of  54 dunams  were used  plantations and irrigable land, 18,720 for cereals, while 31 dunams were built-up areas.
  A mosque built on the remnants of a Crusader church was maintained by the Muslim inhabitants. Village houses were built of adobe brick and a school opened in 1936. By the mid-1940s it had an enrollment of 88 students. The community obtained domestic water from a 48 meters (157 ft) deep well named "al-Khalil".
caption: Summil 1948 1:20,000
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