Welcome To Tabsur - [تبصر [خربة عزون (ח'ירבת עזון)

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Occupation Date

April 3, 1948

Distance From District

19 (km) Southwest of Tulkarm

Elevation

50 (meters)

Map Location

See location #16 on the map

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Military Operation

Coastal Clearing

Exodus Cause

Expulsion by Zionist troops

Village Temains

Tabsur was completely destroyed and defaced.

Ethnically Cleansing

Tabsur inhabitants were mostly terrorized out of their homes on December 21st 1947.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	2,348
Jewish	2,807
Public	89
**Total	5,328

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	0	24
Planted W/ Cereal	1,602	1,092
Built up	29	0
Arable	1,602	1,116
Non-Arable	168	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	994
Est. Refugees 1998	2,406

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 218 (listed under Khirbat 'Azzun)

Near By Towns

Ghabat Miska ↖		Miska ↗
Ghabat Ababisha ←	Tabsur	→ Kafr Saba
	↓ Abu Kishk

Schools

Tabsur had an elementary school for boys.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Ra'anana and Batzra

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on undulating terrain on the coastal plain. It was linked to the town of Qalqilya, about 8 km to the east, by a secondary road that also crossed the coastal highway a short distance to the east of the village. Tabsur was constructed prior to the middle of the nineteenth century on an archaeological site. In the late nineteenth-century, Tabsur was a moderate-sized hamlet (and later classified as such by the Palestine Index Gazetteer) with a well to the north. [SWP (1881) II:135] The village plan was rectangular, extending in a north-west direction. Its houses were built of mud and cement. During the British Mandate, the village established an elementary school for boys. The village also had a few shops. Drinking water was supplied by wells around the village site, mainly by one to the north. Agriculture was based on grain, legumes, watermelons, and cucumbers. In 1944/45 a total of 1,602 dunums was allocated to cereals; 24 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The village contained archaeological remains that included the foundations of a building, a well, fragments of a mosaic pavement, and tombs.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Tabsur was 'the first village largely to be abandoned' in the area of heavy Jewish settlement just north of Tel Aviv, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. Most villagers reportedly left as early as 21 December 1947 out of fear of Jewish attacks. While there had been a considerable number of attacks in the area in the preceding few weeks, there is no record of a specific assault on Tabsur. However, other evidence suggests that at least some villagers remained in their homes for another three months, until 3 April. On that date, according to an Israeli military intelligence report, people from Tabsur were expelled by order of the Haganah in the course of the final 'clearing' of this coastal area (see Khirbat al-Shuna, Haifa sub-district). [M:53, 118]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Zionists established the settlement of Ra'anana (138176) south of the village in 1921, just across the boundary between Jaffa and Tulkarm sub-districts. It has since expanded to form a town, so that some of its suburbs are on village land. Batzra (138179), founded in 1946 on village lands, is north of the village site.

Village Today

The village site has been completely covered with Israeli citrus orchards, making it difficult to distinguish from the surrounding lands. Citrus and cypress trees grow on the village lands.

Source

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

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