sentences:  In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, "Abassan" (presumably both Abasan al-Kabira and Abasan al-Saghira), located in Gaza Subdistrict, had a population of 695; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 1144, still all Muslim, in 186 houses.In the 1945 statistics the two Abasans were still counted together, and had a population of 2,230, all Muslims, with 16,084 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Of this, 92 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 15,616 used for cereals, while 69 dunams were built up (urban) land.