Yasur
Vanished settlement · Israel
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 1,070
- Coordinates
- 31.766, 34.748
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: Yasur was a Palestinian village, located 40 kilometres northeast of Gaza, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
History
Yasur 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.