Yasur (village)
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| Yasur | |
| Arabic | ياصور |
| District | Gaza |
| Population | 1,070 (1945) |
| Jurisdiction | 16,390 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 9 June 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Jewish forces |
| Current localities | Talmey Yechi'el, Bene '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 .[1]
The village consisted of an estimated 244 houses, an elementary school for boys, and a village mosque.[1] The Israeli localities of Talmey Yechi'el and Bene 'Ayish were established on the former lands of Yasur. According to Walid Khalidi:
"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."[1]
[edit] In traveller's literature
James Turner Barclay mentions passing Yasur, Beit 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).[2] 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] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Welcome to Yasur. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-08.
- ^ (1858) The City of the Great King: Or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is. University of Michigan, 578.
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