the population grew to 690 in the 1945 statistics, still all muslim. together with the nearby villages of shaykh dannun and shaykh dawud, the village had 11,771 dunums of land in 1945. the local economy was based on livestock and agriculture. in 1944/45 a total of 6,633 dunums of land in the three villages was used for cereals, 1,371 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, and 58 dunams were built-up (urban) land. 300 dunums in ghabisiyya were planted with olive trees.