Tabsur

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Tabsur (Khirbat 'Azzun)


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arname=(تبصر(خربة عزون
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altSp=Tabsar, Khirbet 'Azzun
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area=5,328
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date=16 April 1948
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curlocl=Ra'anana and Batzra

Tabsur ( _ar. تبصر), also known as Khirbat 'Azzun ( _ar. خربة عزون), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarem. Made up of 231 houses in 1931 and an elementary school for boys, the village was depopulated prior to the outbreak of 1948 Arab-Israeli war.cite web|title=Welcome to Tabsur|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-18|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Tulkarm/Tabsur/index.html]

The Arabs of Tabsur were ordered to leave the village by the Haganah on 3 April 1948 as part of its new policy of clearing out the Arab villages of the coastal plain of Palestine.cite book|title="The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited"|author=Benny Morris|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-521-00967-7|page=245] The villagers left on 16 April 1948. The estimated number of Palestinian refugees from Tabsur in 1998 was 2,406.

ee also

*Azzun
*List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict

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