Al-Murassas

Al-Murassas
المرصص
Etymology: the place of the rubble[1]
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Al-Murassas is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Murassas
Al-Murassas
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°33′38″N 35°28′25″E / 32.56056°N 35.47361°E / 32.56056; 35.47361
Palestine grid195/218
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulationMay 16, 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total460[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

Al-Murassas (Arabic: المرصص), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948. The village was attacked as part of Operation Gideon.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 166
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #117. Also gives cause of depopulation.