Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	May 1, 1948
Distance from district center	6 (km) East of Jaffa
Elevation from the sea	25 (meters)
Map location	See location number #21 on the map
Israeli military operation	Operation Chametz
Defenders	Local militia & Arab Liberation Army
Israeli acts of terror	On the 11 December 1947, a terror attack was launched against Yazur's coffee house murdering six villagers.
Exodus Cause	Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	Yazur was mostly destroyed with the exception of its shrines.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	Yazur inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 9,742 Jewish 1,428 Public 637 Total 11,807
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Jewish (Dunum) Area planted w/ citrus 6,272 451 Irrigated & Plantation 1,689 80 Area planted w/ olives 30 0 Planted W/ Cereal 1,461 864 Built up 87 0 Cultivable 9,422 1,395 Non-Cultivable 870 33
Population before occupation	Year Population 1596 275 1922 1,284 1931 2,337 1945 4,030 1948 4,675 Est. Refugees 1998 28,708
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 419 1948 838
Town's name through history	During Assyrian period, Yazur was referred to by Azuru.
Schools	Yazur had two schools: the 1st was an elementary school for boys founded in 1920 and it had an enrollment of 430 students in 1945; the 2nd was an elementary school for girls founded in 1933 and it had an enrollment of 150 girls in 1945.
Notable people from town	Yazur was the birthplace of Amad Jibril the leader of PFLP-General Command (al-Qyadeh al-'Ameh), and also the birth place of al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Yazuri, who became a powerful minister in A.D. 1050 during the Fatimid period.
Religious institutions	Yazur's mosque was built on the foundation of Crusaders Church
Shrines/maqams	A shrine of a local sage known by Sayyiduna Haydara, plus one other shrine for an unknown individual (both are remain standing).
Water supplies	Yazur had numerous artesian wells which were being used for irrigation and drinking water,
Archeological sites	The village contains the remains of a Crusade fort called The Casal des Plaines, built in 1191 for Richard the Lionheart, still survives in the old village, where there is a multi-domed seventeenth-century mosque and a tomb from the fourth millennium BC.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Miqwe Yisrael and Azor
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More Information	Language External Links Arabic PalGates Hebrew Nakba in Hebrew   Nakba-Online

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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Two village shrines remain standing. One is made of stone and its roof is topped with a dozen domes clustered around a more prominent dome at the center. A number of other structures and houses also are still intact; some are utilized for various"

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