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Ethnically cleansed 19,332
days ago
Abu
Shusha was occupied on the 15th of May 1948. Its location
is 8.5 km South East of
al-Ramla.
Birzeit University, in the West Bank, uncovered a massacre occurred
in the
village soon after occupation. Their research stated that more than
60 unarmed villagers
were hacked to death.
In
1931, 145 houses were there. Abu Shusha has an elementary school for
boys, which was
founded in 1947, and it had an initial enrollment of 33 boys. The
village has one mosque.
The
village was the location of a battle between the Crusaders and the
troops of Salah
al-din al-ayyubi. According to the Palestinian historian Walid
Khalidi, no remaining
structures on the village are still standing. Currently, village
land is being farmed by the
neighboring Jewish settlements.
Ethnic Group
Land ownership (Dunums)
Land
ownership Arab
2,896
Jewish 6,337
Public 192
Total 9,425 ( 8,098 cultivated)
Year Population
Population 19th
century 100
1931
627
1945 870
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