Ceramics from the
Byzantine era have been found here.[6]
Jusayr's residents came from
Egypt and the
Hejaz.[7]
Ottoman era
In 1517, Jusayr was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire with the rest of
Palestine, and in 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman
tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of
Gaza under the
Liwa of Gaza. It had a population of 60 household;[8] an estimated population of 330.[9] The whole population was
Muslim.[8] It paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, including
wheat,
barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats, beehives, as well as on "occasional revenues"; a total of 12,180
Akçe.[8]
In 1838,
Edward Robinson noted el Juseir as a Muslim village, located in the Gaza district.[10][11]
In 1863
Victor 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 the
1945 statistics, Jusayr had a population of 1180 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,361
dunams 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 had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and by 1945, it had 74 students.[9]
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". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 381