page_title: Jabalia
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Jabalia / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Beit Hanoun 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Jabalia also Jabalya is a Palestinian city located 4 kilometers north of Gaza City. It is under the jurisdiction of the North Gaza Governorate, in the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Jabalia had a population of 82,877 in mid‑2006. The Jabalia refugee camp is adjacent to the city to the north. The nearby town of Nazla is a part of the Jabalia municipality. The city is currently ruled by a Hamas administration.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jabalia had a population of 1,775 inhabitants, all Muslim, increasing in the 1931 census to 2,425, still all Muslims, in 631 houses.
  In the  1945 statistics, Jabalia had a population of 3,520, all Muslims,  with 11,497  dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 138 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 1,009 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,036 for cereals, while 101  dunams were built-up   land.
caption: Jabalia 1945 1:250,000
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