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| Yazur The Home Town Of Ahmad Jibril يازور - יאזור Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 1, 1948
Distance from district center
6 (km) East of Jaffa
Elevation from the sea
25 (meters)
Map location
See location number #21 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Chametz
Defenders
Local militia & Arab Liberation Army
Israeli acts of terror
On the 11 December 1947, a terror attack was launched against Yazur's coffee house murdering six villagers.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisYazur was mostly destroyed with the exception of its shrines.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisYazur inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
9,742
Jewish
1,428
Public
637
Total
11,807
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
6,272
451
Irrigated & Plantation
1,689
80
Area planted w/ olives
30
0
Planted W/ Cereal
1,461
864
Built up
87
0
Cultivable
9,422
1,395
Non-Cultivable
870
33
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
275
1922
1,284
1931
2,337
1945
4,030
1948
4,675
Est. Refugees 1998
28,708
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
419
1948
838
Town's name through history
During Assyrian period, Yazur was referred to by Azuru.
Schools
Yazur had two schools: the 1st was an elementary school for boys founded in 1920 and it had an enrollment of 430 students in 1945; the 2nd was an elementary school for girls founded in 1933 and it had an enrollment of 150 girls in 1945.
Notable people from town
Yazur was the birthplace of Amad Jibril the leader of PFLP-General Command (al-Qyadeh al-'Ameh), and also the birth place of al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Yazuri, who became a powerful minister in A.D. 1050 during the Fatimid period.
Religious institutions
Yazur's mosque was built on the foundation of Crusaders Church
Shrines/maqams
A shrine of a local sage known by Sayyiduna Haydara, plus one other shrine for an unknown individual (both are remain standing).
Water supplies
Yazur had numerous artesian wells which were being used for irrigation and drinking water,
Archeological sites
The village contains the remains of a Crusade fort called The Casal des Plaines, built in 1191 for Richard the Lionheart, still survives in the old village, where there is a multi-domed seventeenth-century mosque and a tomb from the fourth millennium BC.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Miqwe Yisrael and Azor
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Two village shrines remain standing. One is made of stone and its roof is topped with a dozen domes clustered around a more prominent dome at the center. A number of other structures and houses also are still intact; some are utilized for various"
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