Editing Dayr al-Qassi (section)

===British Mandate===
[[Image:Dayr al-Qasi1937.jpg|250px|thumb|Two women from Dayr al-Qassi, 1937]]
At the time of the [[1922 census of Palestine]] conducted by the  [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]], Dayr al-Qassi had a population of 663 Muslims.<ref>Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n43/mode/1up 41]</ref> increasing in the [[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]], when Dayr al-Qassi had a population of 865, still all Muslims, living in a total of 169 houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 106].</ref>

Later, Dayr al-Qassi was mostly Muslim but had a large [[Palestinian Christian]] minority. According to the [[Village Statistics, 1945| 1945 census]] it had 1,250 inhabitants; 370 Christians and 880 Muslims.<ref name=1945p4/><ref name=1945data>[http://domino.un.org/pdfs/AAC25ComTech7Add1.pdf ''Village Statistics April 1945,'' The Palestine Government] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609143136/http://domino.un.org/pdfs/AAC25ComTech7Add1.pdf |date=June 9, 2012}}, p. 2</ref> Together with the two villages of [[Fassuta]] and [[al-Mansura, Acre|al-Mansura]], the  population was 2,300 and their total land area was 34,011 dunums.<ref name=Hadawip40>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Acre/Page-040.jpg 40]</ref> 1,607 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 6,475 used for cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in  Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Acre/Page-080.jpg 80]</ref> while 247  dunams were built-up (urban) land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Acre/Page-130.jpg 130]</ref>