Abasan Al-Saghira

Abasan al-Saghira ( ar, عبسان الصغيرة) is a Palestinian agricultural town located in the Khan Yunis Governorate, in the southern Gaza Strip. It is located 2 km southeast of Khan Yunis. According to the 2017 census conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Abasan al-Saghira had a population of 9,290.

History

In 1886, at the end of the Ottoman era, Abasan al-Saghira consisted of about ten huts, with old building stones.

British Mandate Period

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Abassan'' (presumably both Abasan al-Kabira and Abasan al-Saghira) had a population of 695; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census (when they were clearly counted together) to 1144, still all Muslim, in 186 houses.Mills, 1932, p
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In the 1945 statistics the two Abasans were still counted together, and had a population of 2,230, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
31
with 16,084 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
45
Of this, 92 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 15,616 used for cereals, while 69 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
136

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Towns in the Gaza Strip
Khan Yunis Governorate
Municipalities of the State of Palestine