Abu Kishk ابو كشْك | |
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Village | |
 Old school of Abu Kishk | |
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  Abu Kishk Location withinMandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates:32°8′11″N34°51′55″E / 32.13639°N 34.86528°E /32.13639; 34.86528 | |
| Palestine grid | 136/170 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Date of depopulation | 30 March 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 17,121dunams (17.121 km2; 6.610 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 1,900[1][2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Secondary cause | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Herzliya[5] |
Abu Kishk (Arabic:أبو كشك) was aPalestinian village in theJaffa Subdistrict located 12 km northeast ofJaffa, situated 2 km northwest of theYarkon River. The village was depopulated during the1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 30 March 1948 by theIrgun.
In 1945 the population of the village was about 1,900; about 300 of them lived in the area that later becameHerzliya after the establishment of the state of Israel.[6]
The village was situated about 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) northwest of theYarkon River. Secondary roads linked it to theJaffa-Haifa highway and to neighboring villages.[3]
In 1925 the village school was founded. By the mid-1940s it had 108 students, including 9 girls.[3]
At the time of the1931 census, Abu Kishk had a population of 1007 residents, all Muslims.[7]
In the1945 statistics Abu Kishk had 1,900 Muslim residents,[1] who owned a total of 17,121 dunams of land.[2] A total of 2,486 dunums of village land was used forcitrus or bananas, 14,018 was planted with cereals; while 226 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[5][8]
In December 1947 and January 1948 the leaders ofal-Shaykh Muwannis,Al-Mas'udiyya,Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi/Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi, and themukhtars ofIjlil al-Qibliyya,Ijlil al-Shamaliyya and Abu Kishk met withHaganah representatives inPetah Tikva. These villages wanted peace and promised not to harbor anyArab Liberation Armies or local Arab Militia. They further promised that, in the case they were not able to keep them out alone, they were to call on Haganah for help.[9]
By mid-March 1948, theAlexandroni Brigade had imposed isolation, a "quarantine," ofal-Shaykh Muwannis,Ijlil al-Qibliyya,Ijlil al-Shamaliyya and Abu Kishk. However, on 12 MarchLHI kidnapped 5 village notables fromal-Shaykh Muwannis.[10] This completely undermined the villagers' trust in former agreements, and manyleft.[11]
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