Qazaza

Qazaza (Arabic: قزازة‎) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 19 kilometers (12 mi) south of Ramla. It was depopulated in 1948.

History

A European traveler reported that he passed Qazaza in the 1860s on his way to examine a nearby tell.

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kerazeh as "a small village of adobe and stone at the edge of the hills, with gardens and a well."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qezazeh had a population of 472, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 649, still all Muslims, in a total of 150 houses.

The villagers maintained a village mosque and some owned shops. An elementary school was first established in Qazaza in 1922. In 1945 Qazaza joined with the villagers of Sajad and Jilya and established a common school for all the three villages. This school had 127 students at the time of its founding in 1945.