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Welcome To Jusayr - جسير (ג'סיר)

District of Gaza
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date July 17, 1948
Distance From District 35 (km) North East of Gaza
Elevation 100 (meters)
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Map Location See location #21 on the map

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Military Operation Possibly Operation Barak or Operation Yo'av
Attacking Units Giv'ati Brigade
Defenders Egyptian Army
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single house.
Ethnically Cleansing Jusayr inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 12,015
Jewish 0
Public 346
**Total 12,361
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal 11,863
Built up 54
Arable 11,863
Non-Arable 444
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 330
1922 579
1922 579
1931 839
1945 1,180
1948 1,369
Est. Refugees 1998 8,406
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 246
1948 401
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Jaladiyya
          ↖
Tall al-Turmus
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Bi'lin
↗        
Hatta  ←
Jusayr
→   Summil
            ↙
al-Faluja
↓
'Iraq al-Manshiyya
↘           
Zayta
Schools Jusayr had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 74 students.
Places of Warship One mosque
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Menucha and Wardon
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on flat land on the southern coastal plain, between two bridges that crossed Wadi al-Jira. In 1596, Jusayr was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 330. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. In the late nineteenth century, the village of Jusayr was situated on flat ground and laid out along a northwest-southeast axis. The elders reported that their village served as a stop for pilgrims going to Mecca. The residents were Muslims, and the village had its own mosque and an elementary school that was founded in 1937. Enrollment reached seventy-four students in the mid-1940s. For the most part, however, the community relied on the services in al-Faluja, 4 km to the southeast. A 32-m-deep well supplied Jusayr with water for domestic consumption. While some villagers wove rugs and carpets, the majority worked in agriculture. Their most important crop was grain, but they also cultivated fruit. Orchards bordered Jusayr on its northeast and southeast sides. In 1944/45 a total of 11,852 dunums was allotted to cereals.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

According to Israeli sources, the village was occupied in the latter stages of an operation launched by the Israeli army's Giv'ati Brigade during the second week of July 1948. As the first truce of the war ended, Giv'ati commander Shim'on Avidan issued orders to break through Egyptian lines (in order to establish a link with the Negev) and to expel civilians from the area occupied. His forces did not manage to link the Negev with the Israeli-held coast, but they did succeed in seizing an arc of territory south of Ramla and parallel to the coast, driving over 20,000 people from their villages. Jusayr was one of the southernmost villages to be occupied in the operation; it probably was not completely occupied until 17–18 July. The Israeli army later claimed that with the start of the operation and the occupation of Tall al-Safi, morale was undermined in the whole area and the villagers fled with the approach of the Giv'ati units.

However, two Egyptian sources claim that the village was taken by Israeli forces one month earlier, during the first truce of the war. One of these, the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, recalled in his memoirs that under cover of the truce the enemy 'hoped to seize dominating sites so that when the truce ended he could commence his operations from positions that were most advantageous….' Regarding this and the attack on a handful of other villages (lbdis, Asluj, Julis) attacked in violation of the truce, Abdel Nasser wrote that 'there was no indication that our High Command was aware of what was really going on.'

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Two settlements have been established on village lands: Menucha in 1953 and Wardon in 1968. These settlements also occupy lands that once belonged to the neighboring village of Summil.

Village Today

One concrete, flat-roofed house still stands in the middle of a peach orchard. Its front facade has two rectangular windows and a rectangular entrance in the middle. The debris of houses among tall grasses and weeds is visible. A garbage dump is now located on the site, as well as buildings that belong to an Israeli settlement. The surrounding lands are cultivated.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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