page_title: Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Idnibba 1948 1:20,000
context_page_description: Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira, also known as Mamsiyyat al-Hurani, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 42 kilometers northeast of Gaza. Established in the 19th century, it was situated at an elevation of 60 meters in the southern coastal plain of Ottoman Syria. Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, but prior to that, in 1945, it had a population of 530 inhabitants.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mesmiyet Saghira had a population of 261 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the  1931 census when Masmiya El Saghira had an all-Muslim  population of 354  in 73 houses.
  In  the 1945 statistics the population of  El Masmiya es Sagira  was 530 Muslims, while  the total land area was 6,478 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.  Of this, a total of  147 dunams  were used  for citrus and bananas, 7  for plantations and irrigable land, 6,126 for cereals, while 18 dunams were built-up areas.
  Seven small shops provided the village with its basic needs and children attended school in al-Masmiyya al-Kabira. Agriculture was the mainstay of the economy, grain being the dominant crop. In addition to cultivation, the inhabitants raised livestock which numbered approximately 4,000 animals, including sheep, goats, cattle, camels, mules. Farmers participated in the weekly market of al-Faluja, and also sold their products in the cities of Gaza, al-Majdal (Ashkelon), and Jaffa.
caption: Huraniya (Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira) 1948 1:20,000
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