Qazaza

Qazaza

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Qazaza


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arname=قزازة
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population=940
popyear=1945
area=18,829
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date=9 July 1948
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curlocl=Israel Defense Forces base

Qazaza was a Palestinian village, located 19 kilometers south of al-Ramla.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Qazaza was defended by the Egyptian Army and local militiamen. Its population of an estimated 1,090 Arabs fled after the fall of a neighbouring town (Sajad).cite web|title=Welcome to Qazaza|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-06|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/al-Ramla/Qazaza/index.html] On 9 July 1948, Israel's Givati Brigade captured the village. Many of Qazaza's former inhabitants fled to Hebron, forming part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

Today, the village lands are used by the Israel Defense Forces. As a closed military zone, it is not known what became of Qazaza's mosque, its elementary school (which had served the villages of Sajad and Jilya as well) or its more than 150 homes.

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