Yasur, Gaza

Yasur
ياصور
Etymology: personal name[1]
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Yasur is located in Mandatory Palestine
Yasur
Yasur
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°45′56″N 34°44′53″E / 31.76556°N 34.74806°E / 31.76556; 34.74806
Palestine grid126/130
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictGaza
Date of depopulation11 June 1948[4]
Area
 • Total
16,390 dunams (16.39 km2 or 6.33 sq mi)
Population
 (1945[3])
 • Total
1,070[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesTalmei Yehiel,[5] Bnei Ayish[5]

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.[6]

The village consisted of an estimated 244 houses, an elementary school for boys, and a village mosque.[6] Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and Talmei Yehiel and Bnei Ayish were established on the former lands of Yasur. The ruins of the built area of the village were demolished, and the site is today located in an industrial park between Bnei Ayish and the Hatzor Airbase.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 277
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #277, also gives the cause for depopulation
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Khalidi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b "Welcome to Yasur". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-08.