Qazaza

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Qazaza
Arabic	قزازة
District	Ramla
Population	940 (1945)
Jurisdiction	18,829 dunams
Date of depopulation	9 July 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall
Current localities	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).^[1] On 9 July 1948, Israel's Givati Brigade captured the village.^[1] Many of Qazaza's former inhabitants fled to Hebron, forming part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.^[1]

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.^[1]