Yazur
Yazur (Arabic يازور, Hebrew יאזור) was a Palestinian city 6 km east of Jaffa . It was already in the 7th century BC. Mentioned in Assyrian texts and was fought over during the Crusades .
During the Fatimid period in Palestine , some important figures were born in Yazur, such as the vizier Abu Muhammad al-Hassan al-Yazuri (d. 1058). In modern times, the founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command Ahmad Jibril is the most famous son of the city.
Today the Israeli city of Azor stands in the area of Yazur, as Yazur was largely abandoned and destroyed during the civil war from 1947 to 1948.
history
Iron age
The city is mentioned in the annals of Sîn-aḫḫe-eriba (704 BC to 681 BC) as Azuro.
middle Ages
The Fatimid minister Abu Muhammad al-Yazuri was from Yazur. During the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries, the owner of Yazur changed several times until the Mamluks finally took control.
Ottoman Empire
The Syrian Sufi teacher Mustafa al-Bakri al-Siddiqi (1688–1748 / 9), who toured the region in the early 18th century, and Mustafa al-Dumyati (? –1764) reported that they were in a shrine Sayyiduna (Arab . our master) visited Haydara in Yazur. The city was entered under the name Jazour on the map of Pierre Jacotin, a French geographer, in 1799.
British mandate
The city was divided into four quarters, each for one of the clans who lived in the city. During this period, several censuses were conducted, which showed that in 1922 there were 1,284 Muslims in Yazur . In 1931 there were already 2337 inhabitants in 419 houses. By 1945 there were 4030 inhabitants, 20 of whom were Arab Christians .
After the Second World War
During the civil war in what is now Palestine in 1947/48, Yazur was attacked several times by pro-Zionist armed groups. Buildings were blown up and later the city was even attacked with mortars and machine guns.
Shortly before the outbreak of the Palestinian War , from which today's State of Israel emerged, the city was abandoned. The residents were displaced by an offensive by the Hagana against a group of villages east of Jaffa, including Yazur. The aim of this evacuation was to open the way to Lydda for the Jewish troops.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d W. Khalidi, Palestine Reborn, London, Tauris 1992, p. 261.
- ↑ JB Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20. (PDF file)
- ^ E. Mills: Census of Palestine 1931. Population of villages, towns and administrative areas. 1932, p. 16.
- ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 28. (JPG file)
- ^ W. Khalidi, Palestine Reborn, London, Tauris 1992, pp. 261-2.
- ^ HGS \ Operations to Alexandroni, etc., "Orders for Operation" Hametz ", 26 Apr. 1948. IDFA 6647 \ 49 \\ 15. Quoted in Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, 2004, p. 217 / 286.
