page_title: Qastina
section_title: British Mandate period
hierarchical_section_title: Qastina / History / British Mandate period
caption_attribution_description: English: Sawafir 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Qastina was a Palestinian village, located 38 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 406 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census when it had an all-Muslim population of 593 in 147 houses.
  The villagers had a mosque, and in 1936 an elementary school was started, which was shared with the neighbouring village of Tall al-Turmus. By the mid-1940s the school had 161 students.
  In 1939 Kfar Warburg was established on what was traditionally village land, 3 km southwest of the village site.
  By the 1945 statistics the population was 890, all Muslims, with a total of 12,019 dunams of land. The villagers lived mostly of agriculture. In addition, villagers raised animals and poultry, and worked in the British military camp (Beer Tuvia) nearby.
  In 1944/45 a total of 235 dunums was used for citrus and bananas, 7,317 dunums used for cereals, 770 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, while 37 dunams were built-up, urban, land.
caption: Qastina 1945 1:250,000
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