Editing Mi'ar (section)

===British Mandate era===
[[File:Miar3.png|thumb|right|250px|Mi'ar being blown up by the British in 1938.]]
British forces drove out the Ottomans in 1917, during [[World War I]], and the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] was established in 1920. In the [[1922 census of Palestine|1922 British census]], Mi'ar had a population of 429 Muslims.<ref name="Census1922">Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n39/mode/1up  37]</ref> The population increased to 543, still all Muslim, in the [[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]] and the inhabitants lived in a total of 109 houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932,  p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 102].</ref>

A number of Mi'ar's residents participated in [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine|1936–1939 Arab revolt]] against British rule and mass Jewish immigration in Palestine, and the village became a center of rebel operations in the Galilee.<ref name="Bethell49">Bethell, 1979, p. 49</ref> The rebels often opened fired on British troops passing near Mi'ar, damaged roads in the vicinity to render them impassable by the British authorities, cut electrical cables, and planted landmines to hit British vehicles.<ref name="Bethell49"/> One of the authorities' controversial methods of suppressing the revolt was the blowing up of houses in a village where there was support for rebels.<ref name="Bethell49"/> On 26 October 1938, two British battalions launched a raid against Mi'ar and began dynamiting the large houses of the village.<ref name="Bethell49"/> They then demanded Mi'ar's ''[[mukhtar]]'' (headman) to issue a call to the village's rebels to surrender their rifles or else the dynamiting would continue.<ref name="Bethell49"/> No rifles were surrendered and the British resumed their dynamiting of the village's homes.<ref name="Bethell49"/> Mi'ar was entirely destroyed for its alleged support of the rebels.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hughes | first1 = Matthew | year = 2009 | title = The banality of brutality: British armed forces and the repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39 | url = http://v-scheiner.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7251/4/The%20banality%20of%20brutality.pdf | journal = English Historical Review | volume = CXXIV | issue = 507 | pages = 314–354 | doi = 10.1093/ehr/cep002 | url-status = bot: unknown | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160221163210/http://v-scheiner.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7251/4/The%20banality%20of%20brutality.pdf | archive-date = 2016-02-21 }}</ref><ref>Mills, J. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DUpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Gg4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6841%2C4565653  "British Minesweepers and Dynamite Battle Palestine's Arab Rebels"], The Milwaukee Sentinel, Haifa, 26 October 1938.</ref> A ''[[New York Times]]'' reporter present during the destruction wrote, "When the [British] troops left, there was little else remaining of this once busy village except a pile of mangled masonry."<ref name="Bethell49"/>

The village was rebuilt and in the [[Village Statistics, 1945|1945 statistics]], the population of Mi'ar grew to 770, all Muslims.<ref name=1945p4/> A total of 2,878 dunams of village land was used for cereals, while 113 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards.<ref name=Khalidi26/><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-081.jpg 81]</ref>