In 1517, Jusayr was incorporated into theOttoman Empire with the rest ofPalestine, and in 1596 the village appeared in the Ottomantax registers as being in thenahiya (subdistrict) ofGaza under theLiwa of Gaza. It had a population of 60 household;[8] an estimated population of 330.[9] The whole population wasMuslim.[8] It paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, includingwheat,barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats, beehives, as well as on "occasional revenues"; a total of 12,180Akçe.[8]
In 1838,Edward Robinson notedel Juseir as a Muslim village, located in the Gaza district.[10][11]
In 1863Victor Guérin visited the village, which he found to have 500 inhabitants,[12] while an Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that the village had a population of 296, in a total of 119 houses, though the population count included men, only.[13][14]
By the1945 statistics, Jusayr had a population of 1180 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,361dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 11,852 dunams were used for cereals,[18] while 54 dunams were built-up land.[19]
Jusayr 1945 1:250,000
Jusayr had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and by 1945, it had 74 students.[9]
Jusayr 1948 1:20,000
Post 1948
In 1992 the village site was described: "One concrete, flat-roofed house still stands in the middle of a peach orchard. Its front facade has two rectangular windows and a rectangular entrance in the middle. The debris of houses among tall grasses and weeds is visible. A garbage dump is now located on the site, as well as buildings that belong to an Israeli settlement. The surrounding lands are cultivated."[5]
^Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". inShomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 381
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