Welcome To Qazaza - قزازة (קזאזה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

July 9, 1948

Distance From District

19 (km) South of al-Ramla

Elevation

150 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #54 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation An-Far

Attacking Units

First Battalion Giv'ati Brigade

Defenders

Egyptian Army, and some local Palestinian militia.

Refugees' Migration Routes

People of Qazaza were most likely displaced to the Hebron area.

Exodus Cause

Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town

Village Temains

Since the Israeli Army currently uses Qazaz's lands, it is hard to tell whether Qazzaza was destroyed or not!

Ethnically Cleansing

Qazaza inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	14,272
Jewish	0
Public	4,557
**Total	18,829

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	131
Olive Groves	13
Planted W/ Cereal	15,684
Built up	38
Arable	15,815
Non-Arable	2,976

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1922	472
1931	649
1945	940
1948	1,090
Est. Refugees 1998	6,696

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	150
1948	251

Near By Towns

al-Mukhayzin ↖	Umm Kalkha ↑ (N)	Khulda ↗
	Qazaza	→ Sajad
↙ Jilya	↓ Mughallis	↘ al-Burayj

Schools

The people of Qazaza, Sajad, and Jilya founded an elementary school in 1922 which was shared among the three villages. In 1945, it had an enrollment of 127 students.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Village lands are used by the Israeli Army

Village Before Nakba

The village was built in a hilly area on the eastern edge of the central coastal plain. Two secondary roads linked it to the highway between Gaza and the Ramla-Jerusalem highway, and one of them also ended at the Wadi al-Sarar railway station (on the line between Ramla and Jerusalem), 3 km due north, A European traveler reported that he passed through Qazaza in the 1860s on his way to examine a nearby tell. The village layout, which was rectangular in shape and extended in a north-south direction, was divided into a northern section, a middle section (which was the oldest part of the village), and a southern section. Its houses, built of cement, stone, and mud, were clustered together. The residents of Qazaza, who were predominantly Muslim, maintained a village mosque, and some of them owned shops. An elementary school was established in Qazaza in 1922. The people of Qazaza, Sajad, and Jilya established one common school for all three villages; it had 127 students at the time of its founding in 1945. The village's agricultural economy relied on rainfall and was based on grain, vegetables, and fruits. In 1944/45 a total of 11,757 dunums was allocated to cereals; 131 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The first recorded attack on Qazaza occurred in the early morning of 20 December 1947, according to press reports. Just after midnight, a group of Zionist attackers moved into the outskirts of the village and opened fire on Qazaza. The firing continued intermittently for three hours and was followed by a barrage of grenades. The New York Times reported that the mukhtar's house was also dynamited. The Palestinian newspaper Filastin said that the villagers responded to the attack with gunfire. The British police estimated that during the firefight, one villager was killed and two were wounded, including one woman; the Haganah said Arab losses were 'much greater.' The police reportedly tried to pursue the attackers but failed, according to the Times.

On 9-10 July 1948, units of the Giv'ati Brigade's First Battalion overran the village in an offensive mounted just as the first truce of the war was ending. One of the declared aims of the operation, known as An-Far, was to expel over 20,000 inhabitants from an arc of territory south of Ramla. The History of the War of Independence refers to 'clearing operations in the brigade's rear guard to eliminate the threat and danger posed by the presence of Arab civilian concentrations at the rear of the front.' However, Israeli historian Benny Morris claims that direct expulsion of civilians was unnecessary, as they fled on their own when Israeli columns approached their villages. Like other residents of the area, the people of Qazaza were probably displaced to the Hebron area,

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Tirosh (139128), founded in 1955, is close to the village site but stands on the land of the destroyed village of 'Ajjur, across the sub-disctrict boundary, in the Hebron sub-disctrict. The site itself is in a fenced-in military base and is inaccessible.

Village Today

The site is within an inaccessible military zone.

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

Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
معن نايف عبدالرحمن جروان	-	عمان, الرملة
أ.د. فتحي عبدالرحمن جروان	جروان	-
Abdelrahman Jarwan	-	-
نعيم الهودلي	الهودلي	الشهامة, الامارات
احمد العمايرة	العمايرة	عمان - الاردن
مفيد ابو العطا	-	-
عزيز على ابو العطا	ابو العطا	عمان, عمان
صلاح على ابو العطا	-	ابو علندا, ابو علندا
ناصر على ابو العطا	-	ابو علندا, ابو علندا
احمد المصري (ابولؤي)	المصري	عمان_ابوعلندا
باسم محمود المصري ( أبو أسامة )	المصري	ابو علندا, الأردن
alkhatib	abu nar	jordan, jordan
محمد النويهي	النويهي	عمان, الاردن
ابو عمر حيمور	حيمور	الاردن, الاردن
نبراس	الياسوري	البلقاء, الأردن
zhraa	-	mansora, egypt
omar alwadi	الوادي	الرياض , الرياض
هـشـام شحـده الهربيــشـــي (ابو بيسـان )	-	-
زياد عمايره	العمايره	عمان, الاردن
احمد ن	النويهي	amman, قزازة
HIMOOR	-	-
النويهي	النويهي	amman, jordan
iyasouri	-	musqt, oman
abd al_ aziz alwadi	الوادي	-
الهربيشي انا	الهرابشه	عمان, الاردن
أبو حسين	الهربيشي	الزرقاء, الأردن
khader	Jarwan	KSA
MOHAMMAD YOUSEF AHMAD HAMMAD	AL ZAWATEEN	u.s.a
حنان الهربيشي	الهربيشي	-
أحمد الهودلي	الهودلي	الرياض
زيد جروان	جروان	-
امجد حيمور	-	-
النويهي	النويهي	عمان, عمان
Imad Jarwan	Jarwan	USA
ABDALLAH MOHAMMED HAIMOUR	HAMOUR	ONTARIO, CANADA
Alkhatib	abu nar	Dubai, UAE
ma7moud	-	amman, al-joubihaa
abdulla jarwan	jarwan	-
Amjad Jarwan	Jarwan	Amman, H.K.J
Khaled Jarwan	jarwan	-
shadi	haimour	zarqa, jordan
ismail haimour	haimour	-
sami jarwan	-	-
fuad attar	al-attar	-
Salah Alwadi	alwadi	K.S.A
Jamal Haimour	Haimour	-
nidal wadi	-	-
Abdallah Wadi	WADI	U.S.A.

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