page_title: Qazaza
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Qazaza / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Qazaza 1930 1:20,000
context_page_description: Qazaza was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 19 kilometers south of Ramla. It was depopulated in 1948.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qezazeh  had a population of 472 Muslims,  increasing in the 1931 census to 649, still all Muslims, in a total of 150 residential 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.
  The villagers cultivated grain, vegetables and fruits.
  In  the 1945 statistics   the population was 940, all Muslims,  while the total land area was 18,829  dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 11,757 dunums were allocated to cereals, while 131 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, while 38 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas.
caption: Qazaza 1930 1:20,000
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