Tabsur
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| Tabsur (Khirbat 'Azzun) | |
| Arabic | (تبصر(خربة عزون |
| Also Spelled | Tabsar, Khirbet 'Azzun |
| District | Tulkarm |
| Population | |
| Jurisdiction | 5,328 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 16 April 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Explusion by Jewish forces |
| Current localities | Ra'anana and Batzra |
Tabsur (Arabic: تبصر), also known as Khirbat 'Azzun (Arabic: خربة عزون), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarem. Made up of 231 houses in 1931 and an elementary school for boys, the village was depopulated prior to the outbreak of 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[1]
The Arabs of Tabsur were ordered to leave the village by the Haganah on 3 April 1948 as part of its new policy of clearing out the Arab villages of the coastal plain of Palestine.[2] The villagers left on 16 April 1948.[2] The estimated number of Palestinian refugees from Tabsur in 1998 was 2,406.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Welcome to Tabsur. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
- ^ a b Benny Morris (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press, 245. ISBN 0-521-00967-7.
