Welcome To Yasur - ياصور (יאצור)

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Occupation Date

June 9, 1948

Distance From District

40 (km) North East of Gaza

Elevation

50 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #3 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Barak

Attacking Units

First Battalion of the Giv'ati Brigade

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of few deserted houses.

Ethnically Cleansing

Yasur inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	13,102
Jewish	2,871
Public	417
**Total	16,390

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	636	741
Irrigated & Plantation	180	13
Planted W/ Cereal	12,173	2,117
Built up	35	0
Arable	12,989	2,871
Non-Arable	495	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	303
1922	456
1931	654
1945	1,070
1948	1,241
Est. Refugees 1998	7,622

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	129
1948	244

Near By Towns

Bashshit ↖	Qatra ↑ (N)	al-Mukhayzin ↗
Barqa ←	Yasur	→ al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
↙ al-Batani al-Sharqi		↘ Qastina

Schools

Yasur had an elementary school for boys founded in 1923, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 123 students.

Places of Warship

One handsome mosque

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Talmey Yechi'el and Bene 'Ayish

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a plateau on the coastal plain, linked by secondary roads to one highway that led to the city of al-Majdal, to the southwest, and to another highway that led to Ramla, to the northeast. During the Mamluk period (1205–1517), a mail station between Gaza and Damascus was located in Yasur, although this was later transferred to the village of Bayt Daras. In 1596, Yasur was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza), with a population of 303. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats, beehives, and water buffalos. In the late nineteenth century, the village of Yasur had a well to the south and large gardens to the north and east. It was densely populated; its adobe brick houses were built close together, separated by meandering, narrow alleys. The residents were Muslim. A handsome mosque was located at the village center, as were a number of shops. The center also contained an elementary school that was opened in 1923, for which enrollment reached 132 students in the mid-1940s. The villagers drew water for domestic use from wells. Agriculture was the backbone of their economy; they cultivated grain, citrus, olives, and vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of 636 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 12,173 dunums were allotted to cereals; 180 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Grain cultivation relied on rainfall, whereas citrus and vegetables were irrigated. The inhabitants drew their irrigation water from wells that were 25–40 m deep.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The History of the War of Independence states that the village was occupied just before the first truce of the war took effect, on the night of 10–11 June 1948. 'The truce approached—one night remained for operations,' the account reads, 'and, in fact, many operations were planned for this night, and most were implemented.' One of these was an operation to capture Yasur by the First Battalion of the Giv'ati Brigade. These small thrusts to capture individual villages or positions occurred in the wake of Operation Barak, which was launched in the first half of May.

According to the Haganah account, the name of the village was changed to Chatzor, presumably when a settlement was established there. This is probably a reference to Chatzor Ashdod, founded in 1937 on lands that traditionally belonged to al-Batani al-Gharbi, more than 2 km to the northwest.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlements of Talmey Yechi'e and Bene Ayish were established in 1949 and in 1958, respectively, on village lands.

Village Today

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. Next to it is a demolished one and a number of cactuses. A dirt road, lined by cactuses and olive and almond trees, passes by the southern boundary of the fence. The area inside and outside the fence has also been planted with eucalyptus trees.

Source

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

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Pre-Nakba Aerial view of the village / صورة من الجو للقرية اخذت قبل النكبة

Nakba Oral History Interview with Abdel Aziz al-Utti

Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
جدوع	التميمي	الرياض, السعوديه
محد المحتسب	التميمي	الاردن
ALI ALHAJ	-	-
هبه اسماعيل موسى الاحمد	-	-
عبد القادر محمد حسن أبو الريش	-	-
رياض درويش	-	الزرقاء
loranspoker	ALNAMROUTI	AMMAN/ ALASHRAFIYEH , AMMAN
jihad harb	-	naharia, فلسطين 48
jehad arab	Arab	Texas, Texas
وهيب درويش	درويش	المشيرفة
nabeel aldaher	darwish	-
Abedellatif	Alohtseeb Eltamimi	PNA, Germany
حسن الحاج	المحتسبين	عمان
tariq	ghaith	-
abo almared	naser	Gaza, jabalia camp
صالح سعيد درويش	درويش	-
arab	arab	amman, jordan
Al-motaz shaheen	Shaheen	Kuwait
ismail a. hammad alnatour	ALNATOUR	SAUDI ARABIA

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