Reply #120: Hope-Simpson claim of 61,408 Arab families cultivating land..

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"If a deduction of 29.4 per cent, is made from the total of 86,980 families reached above, the balance is 61,408 families actually cultivating the land in the Hills and the Five Plains."
http://www.zionism-israel.com/Palestine_Hope_Simpson_Report.htm

Together with the Lewis French report, it was a whopping 1% of Arab families dispossessed while during the Mandate era, Arab families came to own more than twice the amount of land owned at the beginning of the Mandate.