Yasur, Gaza

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Yasur


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arname=ياصور
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population=1,070
popyear=1945
area=16,390
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date=9 June 1948
cause=M
curlocl=Talmei Yehiel, Bnei Ayish

Yasur ( _ar. ياصور) was a Palestinian village, located 40 kilometres northeast of Gaza, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Its inhabitants fled a military assault by the First Battalion of Israel's Givati Brigade on 9 June 1948, part of Operation Barak .cite web|title=Welcome to Yasur|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-08|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Yasur/index.html]

The village consisted of an estimated 244 houses, an elementary school for boys, and a village mosque. The Israeli localities of Talmei Yehiel and Bnei Ayish were established on the former lands of Yasur. According to Walid Khalidi:

"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."

In traveller's literature

James Turner Barclay mentions passing Yasur, Bayt Dajan and al-Sarafand, on his travels between Jaffa and Haifa in "The City of the Great King: Or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is" (1858).cite book|title="The City of the Great King: Or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is"|publisher=University of Michigan|date=1858|page=578] Yasur was also mentioned in "The Life and Letters of Thomas Hodgkin" (1918) and "Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea" (1841) authored by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith.

ee also

*Yasur, Israel
*List of villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

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