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| Arabic | العبْاسِيّة/اليهودية | |
| Also Spelled | al-Abbasiya, al-Yahudiya, Yehudiya[1] | |
| District | Jaffa | |
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| Date of depopulation | May 4, 1948 | |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces | |
| Current localities | Yehud | |
Al-'Abbasiyya (Arabic: العبْاسِيّة, also known as al-Yahudiya, Arabic: اليهودية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was attacked under Operation Hametz during the 1948 Palestine War, and finally depopulated under Operation Dani. It was located 13 km east of Jaffa. Some of the remains of al-Yahudiya can be found today in the centre of the modern Israeli city of Yehud.
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The old name, Al-Yahudiya is thought to be taken from the name of the biblical town of Yahud, mentioned in Joshua 19:45, and later called Iudaea by the Romans. In 1932 the town was officially renamed Al-'Abbasiyya.[2]
In 1596, Yahudiya appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had a population of 126 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops or fruit trees, sesame, and goats or beehives.[3]
At the time of the 1931 census, Yahudiya had 772 occupied houses and a population of 3253 Muslims and 5 Christians.[4] By 1945 this had increased to 5630 Muslims, 150 Jews, and 20 Christians.[5]