Yasur
ياصور | |
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| Etymology: personal name[1] | |
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  Yasur Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°45′56″N 34°44′53″E / 31.76556°N 34.74806°E | |
| Palestine grid | 126/130 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Date of depopulation | 11 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 depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Talmei 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.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 277
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 32
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #277, also gives the cause for depopulation
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Khalidiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Welcome to Yasur". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-08.