by the British Mandate authorities, Jemzu had a population of 897 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 1,081, still all Muslims, in a total of 268 houses. The villagers of Jimzu maintained a mosque. An elementary school was established in the village in 1920, and by the mid-1940s it had 175 students. Most villagers worked in agriculture. In the 1945 statistics, the population was 1,510, all Muslims, while the total land area was 9,681 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 77 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas, while 5,577 dunums were allocated to cereals. 1,605 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 1,400 dunums was for olives, while 50 dunams were classified as built-up public areas. 1948 war Jizmu was occupied by the Yiftach Brigade, of the newly formed Israeli army, on July 10, 1948, in the first phase of Operation Dani. According to Benny Morris:"The intention, from the first, was to depopulate [Jimzu and surrounding villages]. On 10 July, Yiftah Brigade HQ informed Dani HQ: Our forces are clearing the 'Innaba-Jimzu-Daniyal area and are torching everything that can be burned.'" The following day (11 July) Yiftach informed Dani Headquarters, that its forces had conquered Jimzu and Daniyal and were "busy clearing the villages and blowing up the houses [´oskot betihur hakfarim u´fitzutz habatim]" All of Jimzu's inhabitants left as a result of the assault by Israeli forces. Its 434 homes were demolished on September 13, 1948. The settlement of Gimzo was established on village land in 1950. Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the remains of Jimzu in 1992: "All that remains of the houses are stones, strewn over the site, and some crumbled walls. The site is overgrown with shrubs and thorny plants. Other kind of vegetation also grow on village land, including Christ´s-thorn trees, foxtail, cactuses, and some abandoned olive trees." The most well known family from Jimzu was the Elqaza family. See also Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict References Bibliography p.834 External links Welcome to Jimzu Jimzu, Zochrot Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons Carob, Fennel, and the Red Soil of Gimzo: Crafting Palestinian Identity Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Philistines District of Ramla