Jusayr

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.Dauphin, 1992, p. 873

Jusayr's residents came from Egypt and the Hejaz.Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 381

In 1517, Jusayr was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Gaza under the Liwa of Gaza. It had a population of 60 household;Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 147 an estimated population of 330.Khalidi, 1992, p. 117 The whole population was Muslim. It paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats, beehives, as well as on "occasional revenues"; a total of 12,180 Akçe.

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted el Juseir as a Muslim village, located in the Gaza district.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearc00smitgoog#page/n391/mode/1up 369]Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/118/mode/1up 118]

In 1863 Victor Guérin visited the village, which he found to have 500 inhabitants,Guérin, 1869, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongog02gu#page/122/mode/1up 122] while an Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that the village had a population of 296, in a total of 119 houses, though the population count included men, only.Socin, 1879, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/153/mode/1up 153]Hartmann, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n941/mode/1up 133], also noted 119 houses

In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as being an adobe village on flat ground.Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/260/mode/1up 260], Cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 117

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jusayr had a population of 579 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n11/mode/1up 9] increasing in the 1931 census to 839 Muslims, in a total of 246 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 4]

File:Jseir 1931.jpg

By the 1945 statistics, Jusayr had a population of 1180 Muslims, with a total of 12,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 11,852 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Gaza/Page-087.jpg 87] while 54 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Gaza/Page-137.jpg 137]

File:Faluja 1945.jpg

Jusayr had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and by 1945, it had 74 students.

File:Jseir 1948.jpg

In 1992 the village site was described: "One concrete, flat-roofed house still stands in the middle of a peach orchard. Its front facade has two rectangular windows and a rectangular entrance in the middle. The debris of houses among tall grasses and weeds is visible. A garbage dump is now located on the site, as well as buildings that belong to an Israeli settlement. The surrounding lands are cultivated."

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• [https://www.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Jusayr/index.html Welcome To Jusayr]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/village/view?id=49095 Jusayr], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 20: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227120801/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8382 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.20.jpg Wikimedia commons]
• [http://alnakba.org/villages/gaza/jusayr.htm Jusayr], from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

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