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  • Al-Khisas District Of Gaza

Israeli occupation date: 4th-5th of November 1948.

 

The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.

Al-Khisas inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

 

Land Ownership before Occupation

 

Ethnic Group               Land Ownership

 

Arab                                 3,300

Jewish                              0

Public                               2,969

Total                                 6,269 (3,285 cultivable)

 

 

Population before Occupation

 

Year                         Population

  

1931                           133

1945                           150 (mostly Muslim Population)

 

            Number of houses: In (1931): 26

Al-Khisas students used to attend school at nearby village of al-Jura.

The villager contained remnants of wells and burial grounds by unknown people.

Israeli settlements on town lands: The village has been engulfed by the nearby city

of Ashqelon.

 

 

 
   

 

 

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