Jusayr

It was located in the southern coastal plain between two bridges crossing the Wadi al-Jira, 35 kilometers from Gaza and at an average elevation of 100 meters above sea level. Its inhabitants were Muslims, and it had a mosque and an elementary school established in 1937. In 1945, the village population reached 1,180 people distributed over 346 houses. The residents relied heavily on services from the nearby village of al-Faluja, and they had a 32-meter-deep well for domestic water, while the majority worked in agriculture.

Displacement
The village was occupied in the final stages of an operation carried out by the Givati ​​Brigade during the second week of July 1948 after the end of the first truce, when the brigade commander Shimon Avidan issued orders to penetrate the Egyptian lines and expel civilians from the occupied area.

Colonization
Two colonies were established on the village lands: Manuha in 1953 and Pardon in 1968. These two colonies also occupied lands that belonged to the neighboring village of Samil.

The village today
A single flat-roofed concrete house still stands in the middle of a peach orchard, with two rectangular windows on its facade and a rectangular entrance in the middle. The wreckage of the houses can be seen among the tall grass and wild weeds. There is now a garbage dump on the site, in addition to some buildings belonging to one of the two neighboring colonies. The surrounding lands are cultivated.

Reference: Walid Al-Khalidi, Lest We Forget, pp. 527, 528.