Jusayr
Jusayr | |
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Subdistrict | Gaza |
Palestine grid | 128/118 |
Population | 1180 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | July 17-18, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current localities | Menucha, Wardon |
Jusayr was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948 under Operation Barak or Operation Yo'av. It was located 35 km northeast of Gaza.
A 1596 census revealed a population of 330. By 1945, it had a population of 1180. Jusayr had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and by 1945, it had an enrollment of 74 students.
References
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #300. Also gives cause for depopulation
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. ( p. 260, Cited in Khalidi, p.117)
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 122 )
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Nasser, Gamal Abdul (1955/1973): "Memoirs" in Journal of Palestine Studies
- " “Memoirs of the First Palestine War” in 2, no. 2 (Win. 73): 3-32, pdf-file, downloadable
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. "the little bridge" p. 368.
External links
- Welcome To Jusayr
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 20: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Jusayr, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Coordinates: 31°39′25″N 34°46′15″E / 31.65694°N 34.77083°E
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