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<304 > APPENDIX I:
ESTIMATED POPULATION OF PALESTINE AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1946

	Moslems	Christians	Druses and others	Bedouin	Total number of Arabs and others	Jews	Total
Arab State
Western Galilee	88,150	26,390	9,260		123,800	3,040	126,840
Samaria and Judea	466,390	18,660	300		485,350	5.020	490,370
Gaza	166,570	1,290			117,860	1,460	119,320
Total	671,110	46,340	9,560	22.000	749,010	9,520	758,530
Jewish State
Eastern Galilee	81,060	3,700	1,440		86,200	28,750	114,950
Plains of Sharon and d'Esdraelon	252,450	49,960	4,350	13,000	306,760	469,250	776,010
Beersheba	11,600	210	10	92,000	103,820	1,020	104,840
Total	345,110	53,870	5,800	105,000	509,780	499,020	1,008,800
City of Jerusalem	60.560	44,850	130		105,540	99,690	205,230
SUMMARY
Arab State	671,110	46,340	9,560	22,000	749,010	9,520	758,530
Jewish State	345,110	53,870	5,800	105,000	509,780	499,020	1,008,800
City of Jerusalem	60,560	44,850	130		105,540	99.690	205,230
Total	1,076.780	145,060	15,490	127,000	1,364,330	608,230	1,972,560

<305 > APPENDIX II
ESTIMATED POPULATION OF PROPOSED JEWISH STATE AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1946

District Sub-district	Moslems	Christians	Others	Total number of Arabs	Jews	Total
Eastern Galilee
Safad	39,910	550		40.460	7,170	47,630
Tiberias	23,940	2,470	1,420	27.830	13,640	41,470
Beisan	16.660	680	20	17,360	7,590	24,950
Nazareth	550			550	350	900
Total	81,060	3,700	1,440	86,200	28,750	114,950
Plains of Sharon and Esdraelon
Nazareth	3,040	980		4.020	7,630	11,650
Haifa	90,380	30,990	3,990	125.360	119,010	244,370
Tulkarm	33,750	30		33,780	16,180	49,960
Jaffa	95,980	17,790	360	114,130	295,160	409,290
Ramleh	26,500	170		26,670	29,970	56,640
Gaza	2,800			2.800	1,300	4,100
Total	252,450	49.960	4,350	306,760	469,250	776,010
Beersheba
Gaza	5,330			5,330	510	5,840
Beersheba	6,270	210	10	6,490	510	7,000
Total	11,600	210	10	11,820	1,020	12,840
Totals	345,110	53,870	5,800	404,780UN5	499,020	903,800*

<306 > APPENDIX III
NOTE DATED 1 NOVEMBER 1947 ON THE BEDOUIN POPULATION OF PALESTINE PRESENTED BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

1. The nomad population of Palestine has been enumerated completely on two occasions (1922 and 1931) and partially on one occasion (1946). The figures resulting from these enumerations were as follows:

Table A3-1: Enumeration of Bedouins in Palestine
Year	Number
1922	103,000
1931	67,000
1946 (Beersheba area only)	92,000

2. The 1922 enumeration was not a direct one, certain indirect methods having been used. It was not possible for the census authority to state the degree of accuracy of the figures. The 1931 enumeration was more direct but was stated by the officer who carried out the work to be incomplete approximately by as much as 20 per cent. The author of the 1931 census report for all Palestine stated, however, on the basis of certain checks, that the degree of incompleteness was less than 20 per cent. The Government statistician has examined the checks made and docs not consider that the conclusion of the author of the census report was justified. If we accept the estimate of the officer who took the 1931 census, the figure for the Bedouin of all Palestine would have been not 67,000 but 84,000.

3. The latest census of Bedouin resident in the Beersheba area was undertaken by the Government statistician in May 1946 as a preliminary operation of the census of Palestine scheduled for November 1946 but later post-poned. The count was a direct one carried out by officers of the Department of Statistics working with enumerators recruited from among the literate members of the tribes. Each tribal chief was asked for particulars of the sub-tribes of his tribe, viz., name of sub-tribal chief and present location. The sub-tribal chiefs were then visited and asked to give particulars of the name and location of each hamuleh (clan). The clan chiefs were then called upon to proceed with the enumerator to each head of household where particulars were taken, in situ, of the name, age, sex, literacy and relationship of each member of the household. That method of enumeration, being based on the tribal structure of relationships and not on any geographical basis (other than that of restriction to the Beersheba area) was calculated to give a greater degree of accuracy than either of the earlier enumerations.

Table A3-2: Bedouin population per subdistrict
Subdistrict	1931 Census	1946 Estimate
Beersheba	48.000	92,000
Nablus	220	400
Hebron	2,000	3,800
Jerusalem	7,070	13,400
Gaza	530	1,000
Ramleh	3,780	7,200
Jaffa and Tulkarm	5,000	9,500
Total:	66,600	127,300

<307 4. In addition to the census method, some idea has been obtained of the size of the Bedouin population from a plotting of the tents and houses that could be spotted from aerial photographs taken by the Royal Air Force over northern Beersheba about the same period of the year. The results obtained from the aerial photographs indicate that the figure of 48,000 (which was the only estimate available of the Beersheba Bedouin up to 1946) is greatly understated if applied to the population of 1946. The number of houses shown was 3,389 and of tents 8,722. The bulk of the population lives in the northern and northwestern parts of the Beersheba sub-district where the average rainfall is from 200 to 300 millimetres a year and where the greater part of the 2 million dunums of cereal land cultivated by the Bedouin is situated.

5. As regards the rest of the country, it is not possible to give any close estimate of the present bedouin population, In 1931, the Beersheba tribes amounted to approximately 72 per cent of the total Bedouin population. If this relationship between Beersheba and the rest of Palestine still holds good, the total Bedouin population would be in the region of 127,000. The division of these figures as between the various sub-districts of normal residence is as follows:

Of these 127,000, approximately 22,000 may be taken as normally resident in the areas allocated to the Arab State under the plan proposed by the majority of the Special Committee.

6. It should be noted that the term “Beersheba Bedouin" has a meaning more definite than one would expect in the case of a nomad population. These tribes, wherever they are found in Palestine, will always describe themselves as Beersheba tribes. Their attachment to the area arises from their land rights there and their historic association with it.

APPENDIX IV - Map of population distribution is inline in Chapter 3

APPENDIX V - Map of land ownership distribution is inline in Chapter 3

APPENDIX VI

This was one huge table with 39 columns which could not be shown on one printed page and not completely on a computer screen without scrolling and losing the oversight. Therefore we have split this huge table into six independent tables, which now follow.

In table A6-3, the column "Others" was not visible in the PDF-file from which these tables had been taken; the magenta border marks those figures which have been calculated by subtracting the figures of the other columns from the total. The figures in the column "Public" in magenta color are product of a little guesswork and calculation to make the sums vertically and horizontally right.
Editor.

Table A6-1: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 1: Categories 1-2: Citrus
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 1: Categories 1-2: Citrus (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	8,288	197		243	8,728
Beisan	396	1,221			1,617
Nazareth	59	430			489
Safad	168	66			234
Tiberias	77	1,243		25	1,345
Total	8,988	3,157		268	12,413
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	346	18,475	77	6	18,904
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin	43				43
Nablus	25		16		41
Tulkarm	15,968	31,859	4		47,831
Total	16,036	31,859	20		47,915
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron
Jerusalem	63		296	108	467
Ramallah
Total	63		296	108	467
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	44,434	41,192	794	3,275	89,695
Ramle	39,071	40,153	241	1,171	80,636
Total	83,505	81,345	1,035	4,446	170,331
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	26,430	4,892	9	87	31,418
Grand Total	135,368	139,728	1,437	4,915	281,448
Beersheba
Grand Total For Palestine	135,368	139,728	1,437	4,915	281,448

Table A6-2: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 2: Categories 3: Bananas
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 2: CATEGORY 3 - BANANAS (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	41	12		81	134
Beisan	307	155	19		481
Nazareth
Safad
Tiberias	1	615		6	622
Total	349	782	19	87	1,237
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	5	71	2		78
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin
Nablus	4		6		10
Tulkarm	199	131			330
Total	203	131	6		340
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron
Jerusalem	1,107		507	123	1,737
Ramallah
Total	1,107		507	123	1,737
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	41	37	11	204	293
Ramle	125	57			182
Total	166	94	11	204	475
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	13	1			14
Grand Total	1,843	1,079	545	414	3,881
Beersheba
Grand Total For Palestine	1,843	1,079	545	414	3,881

Table A6-3: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 3: Categories Plantation
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 3: CATEGORIES 4-8 � PLANTATION (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others (computed Values)	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	82,582	1,382	576	100	84,640
Beisan	8,296	7,679	4,933		20,908
Nazareth	19,574	5,008	93	273	24,948
Safad	64,707	20,504	15,833	50	101,094
Tiberias	18,199	6,995	235	107	25,536
Total	193,358	41,568	21,670	530	257,126
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	29,259	29,267	28	874	59,428
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin	86,004		55	67	86,126
Nablus	155,158		3,490	10,618	169,266
Tulkarm	93,158	1,991	30		95,179
Total	334,320	1,991	3,575	684	340,570
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron	65,996	474	325	464	67,259
Jerusalem	78,263	2,333	5,715	6,036	92,347
Ramallah	203,718		19	300	204,037
Total	347,977	2,807	6,059	6,800	363,643
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	13,634	5,137	1,219	1,394	21,384
Ramle	65,390	8,769	3,783	1,181	79,123
Total	79,024	13,906	5,005	2,572	100,507
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	68,284	4,628	11,132	22	84,066
Grand Total	1,052.222	94,167	47,718	11,228	1,205.335
Beersheba
Grand Total For Palestine	1,052.222	94,167	47,718	11,229	1,205.336

Table A6-4: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 4: Categories 9-15: Taxable Cereal
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 4: Categories 9-13 Taxable Cereal (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	207,805	7,494	353	937	216,589
Beisan	135,307	103,200	14,405	179	253,091
Nazareth	181,622	119,181	3,249	1,887	305,939
Safad	135,858	42,948	5,862		184,668
Tiberias	134,228	106,045	3,139	3,028	246,440
Total	794,820	378,868	27,008	6,031	1,206.727
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	274,375	188,586	10,425	10,885	484,271
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin	346,672	4,173	11,705		362,550
Nablus	250,813		14,825	4,040	269,678
Tulkarm	346,773	91,890	6,469	8	445,140
Total	944,258	96,063	32,999	4,048	1,077.368
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron	398,172	2,496	4,271	47	404,986
Jerusalem	118,215	9,333	1,007	25,817	154,372
Ramallah	90,340	45	161	18	90,564
Total	606,727	11,874	5,439	25,882	649,922
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	84,029	40,244	3,131	8,787	136,191
Ramle	346,457	50,849	12,689	8,009	418,004
Total	430,486	91,093	15,820	16,796	554,195
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	667,831	37,474	62,749	132	768,186
Grand Total	3,718.497	803,958	154,440	63,774	4,740.669
Beersheba	1,934.849	65,151			2,000.000
Grand Total For Palestine	5,653.346	869,109	154,440	63,774	6,740.669

Table A6-5: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 5: Categories 14-15: Taxable Cereal
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 5: CATEGORIES 14-15 TAXABLE CEREAL (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	52,767	346	15		53,128
Beisan	7,500	4,498	1,950	5	13,953
Nazareth	5,467				5,467
Safad	53,319	27,488	1,156		81,963
Tiberias	8,078	20,921	38		29,037
Total	127,131	53,253	3,159	5	183,548
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	29,785	9,983	198	9	39,975
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin	38,299		124		38,423
Nablus	224,107		54,581	215	278,903
Tulkarm	17,379				17,379
Total	279,785		54,705	215	334,705
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron	181,739	1,790	1,791	300	185,620
Jerusalem	85,148	1,787	9,052	422	96,409
Ramallah	74,764	22		5	74,791
Total	341,651	3,599	10,843	727	356,820
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	35	380			415
Ramle	19,972	507	2	317	20,798
Total	20,007	887	2	317	21,213
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	24,687	117	8,317		33,121
Grand Total	823,046	67,839	77,224	1,273	969,382
Beersheba
Grand Total For Palestine	823,046	67,839	77,224	1,273	969,382

Table A6-6: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 6: Uncultivable land
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 6: CATEGORY 16 - UNCULTIVABLE (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others	Roads, Railways, Rivers & Lakes	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	339,684	13,405	73,468	60	2,544	429,161
Beisan	6,996	3,934	51,717		9,191	71,838
Nazareth	47,777	10,213	84,833	969	8,088	151,880
Safad	217,501	27,267	68,514		7,949	321,231
Tiberias	64,234	25,688	29,429	1,845	8,483	129,679
Total	676,192	80,507	307,961	2,874	36,255	1,103.789
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	92,445	70,952	160,663	6,454	22,254	352,768
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin	228,346	78	114,197		2,654	345,275
Nablus	744,321		111,796	14,796	3,125	874,038
Tulkarm	173,391	9,853	20,548		15,720	219,512
Total	1,146.058	9,931	246,541	14,796	21,499	1,438.825
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron	1,332.923	1,352	76,145	340	1,564	1,412.324
Jerusalem	1,030.164	12,915	129,207	20,046	5,131	1,197.463
Ramallah	308,309	79	2,294	23	1,032	311,737
Total	2,671.396	14,346	207,646	20,409	7,727	2,921.524
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	5,048	5,085	5,105	83	12,844	28,165
Ramle	192,835	16,450	30,398	876	17,233	257,792
Total	197,883	21,535	35,503	959	30,077	285,957
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	29,315	1,289	123,145	37	23,327	177,113
Grand Total	4,813.289	198,560	1,081.459	45,529	141,139	6,279.976
Beersheba			10,573.110			10,573.110
Grand Total For Palestine	4,813.289	198,560	11,654.569	45,529	141,139	16,853.086

Table A6-7: Land ownership by crop, subdistrict, and population group. Part 7: Grand Totals
Extract from Village Statistics As at 1. April 1945	Part 7: GRAND TOTAL (in dunums)
SUB-DISTRICT	Arabs	Jews	Public	Others	Roads, Railways, Rivers & Lakes	Total
GALILEE DISTRICT
Acre	695,694	24,997	74,705	1,481	2,786	799,663
Beisan	159,812	124,755	73,070	184	9,266	367,087
Nazareth	258,616	137,382	88,354	4,429	8,752	497,533
Safad	474,973	121,488	91,500	7	8,163	696,131
Tiberias	226,441	167,406	33,122	5,085	8,915	440,969
Total	1,815.536	576,028	360,751	11,186	37,882	2,801.383
HAIFA DISTRICT
Haifa	434,666	364,276	179,616	24,766	28,431	1,031.755
SAMARIA DISTRICT
Jenin	701,965	4,251	126,179	73	2,746	835,214
Nablus	1,383.466	15	184,872	19,691	3,674	1,591.718
Tulkarm	650,646	141,361	27,257	15	16,081	835,360
Total	2,736.077	145,627	338,308	19,779	22,501	3,262.292
JERUSALEM DISTRICT
Hebron	1,984.434	6,132	82,571	1,154	1,894	2,076.185
Jerusalem	1,326.571	33,401	146,361	55,765	8,687	1,570.785
Ramallah	681,996	146	2,569	489	1,364	686,564
Total	3,993.001	39,679	231,501	57,408	11,945	4,333.534
LYDDA DISTRICT
Jaffa	158,413	129,439	11,981	16,917	18,616	335,366
Ramle	670,392	122,159	47,380	11,640	18,621	870,192
Total	828,805	251,598	59,361	28,557	37,237	1,205.558
GAZA DISTRICT (Excl. Beersheba S/D)
Gaza	830,314	49,260	206,196	349	25,382	1,111.501
Grand Total	10,638.399	1,426.468	1,375.733	142,045	163,378	13,746.023
Beersheba	1,936.375	65,231	10,574.925	5	464	12,577.000
Grand Total For Palestine	12,574.774	1,491.699	11,950.658	142,050	163,842	26,323.023

CONTENTS	Page (in the printed document)
Introduction	270
Chapter I: Legal issues connected with the Palestine problem	272
Chapter II: Relief of Jewish refugees and displaced persons	283
Chapter III: Proposals for the constitution and future government of Palestine	288
Chapter IV: Conclusions	299
Appendix I: Estimated population of Palestine as at 31 December 1946	304
Appendix II: Estimated population of proposed Jewish State as at 31 December 1946	305
Appendix III: Note dated 1 November 1947 on the Bedouin population of Palestine presented by the representative of the United Kingdom	305
Appendix IV: Map of Palestine showing distribution of population by sub-districts	307
Appendix V: Map of Palestine showing land ownership	307
Appendix VI: Extracts from village statistics as at 1 April 1945	307
Footnotes

Appendices of the Report of Sub-Committee 2 to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian question of the UN General Assembly 1947

<304> APPENDIX I: ESTIMATED POPULATION OF PALESTINE AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1946

<305> APPENDIX II ESTIMATED POPULATION OF PROPOSED JEWISH STATE AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1946

<306> APPENDIX III NOTE DATED 1 NOVEMBER 1947 ON THE BEDOUIN POPULATION OF PALESTINE PRESENTED BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM