Yasur, Gaza
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| Arabic | ياصور |
| Sub-district | Gaza |
| Coordinates | 31°45′56.12″N 34°44′52.85″E / 31.7655889°N 34.7480139°ECoordinates: 31°45′56.12″N 34°44′52.85″E / 31.7655889°N 34.7480139°E |
| Population | 1,070 (1945) |
| Area | 16,390 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | 11 June 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Talmei Yehiel, Bnei Ayish |
Yasur (Arabic: ياصور) was a Palestinian village, located 40 kilometres northeast of Gaza, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Its inhabitants fled a military assault by the First Battalion of Israel's Givati Brigade on 9 June 1948, part of Operation Barak .[2]
The village consisted of an estimated 244 houses, an elementary school for boys, and a village mosque.[2] The Israeli localities of Talmei Yehiel and Bnei Ayish were established on the former lands of Yasur.
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[edit] History
During the Mamluk period (1205-1517), a mail station between Gaza and Damascus was located in Yasur, although this was later transferred to the village of Bayt Daras.[3] In 1596, Yasur was part of the Ottoman Empire, nahiya (subdistrict) of Gaza under the liwa' (district) of Gaza with a population of 303. Villagers paid taxes to the authorities for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame as well as on other types of property, such as goats, beehives and water buffaloes.[4]
In the late nineteenth century, Yasur had a well to the south and large gardens to the north and east.[5]
[edit] In traveller's literature
James Turner Barclay mentions passing Yasur, Bayt Dajan and al-Sarafand, on his travels between Jaffa and Haifa in The City of the Great King: Or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is, 1858[6] Yasur was also mentioned in The Life and Letters of Thomas Hodgkin (1918) and Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea, 1841, authored by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith.
[edit] Today
According to Walid Khalidi, 1992:
"The village is a closed, fenced-in military zone. At the village entrance there is a sign: 'TAT Aircraft Parts Industrial Firm.' A single undemolished house stands some 10 m away from the entrance. Next to it is a demolished one and a number of cactuses. A dirt road, lined by cactuses and olive and almond trees, passes by the southern boundary of the fence. The area inside and outside the fence has also been planted with eucalyptus trees"[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, village #277 p. xix, Also gives the cause for depopulation
- ^ a b "Welcome to Yasur". Palestine Remembered. http://www.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Yasur/index.html. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p.139
- ^ Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter and Kamal Abdulfattah, 1977, Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 151. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 139.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, SWP II, 1881, p.414. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.139
- ^ The City of the Great King: Or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is. University of Michigan. 1858. p. 578.
[edit] Bibliography
- Barclay, James Turner (1858): The City of the Great King: Or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is to be, Published by Challen, 627 pages.
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Morris, Benny (2004): The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-00967-7
- Robinson, Edward, Eli Smith (1841): Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, Published by Crocker & Brewster, Item notes: v.2 p.370
