Editing Isdud (section)

{{Short description|Depopulated Palestinian village}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Isdud / Esdud
| native_name             = اسدود
| native_name_lang        = ar
| other_name              =
| settlement_type         = Former village
| image_skyline           = General view, Matson Collection (Before 1914).jpg
| image_alt               = Isdud, pre-1914
| image_caption           = Isdud, pre-1914
<!-- images, nickname, motto -->
| etymology               = 
<!-- maps and coordinates -->
| pushpin_map             = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption     = Location within [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| pushpin_mapsize         = 200
| coordinates             = {{coord|31|45|13|N|34|39|42|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name               = [[Palestine grid|Palestine&nbsp;grid]]
| grid_position           = 118/129
<!-- location -->
| subdivision_type        = [[Geopolitical entity]]
| subdivision_name        = [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1       = [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|Subdistrict]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|Gaza]]
<!-- established -->
| established_title1      = Date of depopulation
| established_date1       = 28 October 1948<ref>Morris, 2004, village #281 p xvii, Also gives the cause for depopulation</ref>
| established_title2      = Repopulated dates
<!-- area -->
| area_footnotes          = {{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
| unit_pref               = dunam
| area_total_dunam        = 7,391
<!-- population -->
| population_as_of        = 1945
| population_total        = 4,910
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| blank_name_sec1         = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1         = Military assault by [[Yishuv]] forces
| blank1_name_sec1        = Secondary cause
| blank1_info_sec1        = Fear of being caught up in the fighting
| blank3_name_sec1        = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1        = [[Sde Uzziyyahu]], [[Shetulim]], [[Bene Darom]], and [[Gan ha-Darom]]
}}

'''Isdud''' ({{langx|ar|إسدود|ʾisdūd}}) was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] village in the region of [[Tel Ashdod]] that was  [[List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war|depopulated]] in the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]].  Khalidi says it may have had  historic links  to  Azdud,  a postal stop between [[al-Ramla]] and [[Gaza City|Gaza]],<ref name=Khalidi>Khalidi, 1992, p. 110</ref>  and the [[Ashdod (ancient city)|ancient city of Ashdod]]. The name appears in documents  from the time of [[Mamluk]]-rule  in the mid-15th century. In the [[History of Palestine#Ottoman period|Ottoman period]], there were 75 households. In 1922, it had a population of 2,566 (2,555 Muslims and 11 Christians) and in 1945, 4,620 Arabs and 290 Jews. During the 1948  war, the Arab inhabitants fled or were expelled. 

Today, the village's ruins form part of the [[Tel Ashdod]] archaeological site,<ref name="antiquities.org.il">{{cite web | title=Tel Ashdod, Esdûd (S); Isdud, Sdud (M)|website=antiquities.org.il | url=https://www.antiquities.org.il/survey/new/default_en.aspx?pid=1333 | access-date=2022-12-27}}</ref> which  lies within the jurisdiction of the [[Be'er Tuvia Regional Council]].<ref name=Rough>{{cite book | last1=Jacobs | first1=D. | last2=Eber | first2=S. | last3=Silvani | first3=F. | author4=Rough Guides (Firm) | title=Israel and the Palestinian Territories: The Rough Guide | publisher=Rough Guides | series=Music rough guide | year=1998 | isbn=978-1-85828-248-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRc9ea_CKOUC&pg=PA113 | access-date=2022-12-22 | page=113|quote= Four kilometres out of town and just west of Route 4, Tel Ashdod was the centre of the village of Isdud - ancient Ashdod - and site of the Philistine port. Get off the bus if you like old mounds, derelict Palestinian homes...}}</ref><ref name=Carta>{{cite book | author=Karṭa (Firm) | title=Carta's Official Guide to Israel: And Complete Gazetteer to All Sites in the Holy Land | publisher=State of Israel, Ministry of Defence Publishing House | year=1983 | isbn=978-965-220-047-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxtGwWDXo-AC | access-date=2022-12-22 | page=81|quote=Tel Ashdod... Ancient tel, 7 km S. of modern Ashdod within abandoned Arab village of Isdud ...}}</ref> The central village mosque stands at the top of the site, as does the khan and the tomb of Sheikh Abu Qubal.<ref>[https://visit.ashdod.muni.il/wp-content/uploads/travelers-guide/en/files/assets/common/downloads/Ashdod%20Travelers%20guide.pdf Ashdod Shichor Guide], "Around Ashdod: Tel Ashdod", p.170-171, "The archaeological site, which dominated the ancient sea route (Via Maris), rises to a height of about ten meters above sea level. Among other things, it includes the remains of the Arab village of Isdud and the remains of the entrance to the Philistine city, through which the Holy Ark was brought in. Some of the village buildings still show signs of bullet holes from the fierce battles that took place here during the War of Independence. At the top of the site stand the remains of the mosque that was located in the middle of the village, and was named after Salman Al Farsi, who was, according to legend, the personal barber of the Prophet Muhammad. To the west of the mosque there is a khan that was built during the Ottoman period and used as a resting place for pilgrims passing through. Next to the khan stands one of the only structures that was left mostly intact - the tomb of Sheikh Abu Al-Kabel."</ref>