Tabsur (), also Khirbat 'Azzun (), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys. Its Palestinian population was expelled during the Nakba.
The site of Tabsur contained archaeological remains, including the foundations of a building, a well, fragments of mosaic pavement, and tombs.
.In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted 'Azzun an agricultural plot of land in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village. Residents of 'Azzun then repopulated the archaeological site of Tabsur. Describing this settlement according to local tradition, Ayalon and Marom noted, <blockquote>On a summer day sometime in the late 1860s, a group of shabab (youth) from the Jabal Nablus (Samaria) highland left their village of ÿAzzun and descended to the sparsely populated and wooded coastal plain. They arrived at the long-abandoned site of Tubsur [...] Pitching their tents among the ancient ruins, they set about demarcating ÿAzzunâÂÂs new land claim in the Forest of Arsuf (al-ghaba) [...]. They debarked the old oak trees as boundary marks, one village elder narrated, âÂÂand after that they began improving the land by chopping down the trees and thornsâÂÂ.Like colonists settling on a land for the first time, they built an eponymous village, Khirbat ÿAzzun, and began making a living from growing grains and watermelons intended for faraway markets. âÂÂIts borders extended north as far as the lands of Miska, al-Tira and the Swamp (al-Bassa)âÂÂ, the elder reminisced; âÂÂas far south as the tribe of Abu Kishk and the Yarkon (ÿAuja river), westward up to the ghaba of the people of Kafr ÿAbbush (Ghabat al-ÿAbabsha) and Sidna ÿAli, and eastward up to the village of Kafr SabaâÂÂ.</blockquote>
The first residents dug up ancient building stones from among the ruins and used them to construct temporary buildings roofed over with branches.
In the 1870s, Tabsur was described as a moderate-sized hamlet with a well to the north. It was later classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.
According to Ayalon and Marom, "The frontline trenches of the Great War carved open wounds in the plainâÂÂs soil, destroying and temporarily depopulating Khirbat ÿAzzun, Kfar Sava and some other nearby villages."
In the 1922 census of Palestine there were 709 villagers; 700 Muslims and 9 Christians, (where the Christians were all Orthodox,) increasing in 1931 census to 994; 980 Muslims and 14 Christians, in 218 houses.
In the 1940s, Khirbat ÿAzzun was home to 300 people, with shrinking land, and poor infrastructure "The village improved its economic base by adopting new agricultural methods and benefiting from a degree of cooperation with Raÿanana. Toward the end of the period, the village owned a fine mosque, a school, a couple of guest rooms (dawawin), twelve plots of citrus plantation (bayyarat), a mechanized well, and a grocery shop."
In the 1944/45 statistics, a total of 1,602 dunums were allocated to cereals, while 24 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. 29 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.
The Arabs of Tabsur were ordered to leave by the Haganah on 3 April 1948, as part of Haganas policy of clearing out the Arab villages on the coastal plain. The villagers left on 16 April 1948.
A detailed report by Ayalon and Marom, reads:<blockquote>On 16 April, Tiroshi reported the emptying of the village in a terse, unemotional tone: âÂÂKhirbat ÿAzzun was evacuated by its last inhabitants. The reason we gave for the eviction order: our inability to guarantee that the deed [massacre] of Deir Yassin will not recur here as well. The property was handed over to the committee that handles enemy property.âÂÂThese laconic, stale reports veil an acute interpersonal and intercommunal drama. Oral recollections of those who were involved in the expulsion shed important light on the events of that fateful day, the likes of which happened in numerous other Palestinian villages. The immediate pretext for deportation was an incident in which Jewish workers were injured in the fields, an incident that caused intense panic in the village. Early in the morning, an armed Jewish delegation from Raÿanana, headed by security chief Moshe Schwartzman, entered Khirbat ÿAzzun. They found its inhabitants near the mosque âÂÂon their shackles, sitting on the ground and awaiting their fateâÂÂ. It was a Friday, the day of IslamâÂÂs congregational prayer. After attempting to break into the mosque, the delegation engaged in a âÂÂnervous and impatientâ conversation with the village dignitaries regarding assuring the safety of the villagers and their property. The delegation ordered the residents to leave.Sh. Elon, the local Haganah commander who was with the delegation and oversaw the eviction, testified that the Arabs entrusted him with the keys to their houses and property, to be kept until their return. Later on, the property was sold and the proceeds were deposited in a fund designed for compensating the Arabs once the fighting had ended. Instead, however, Raÿanana used the fundâÂÂs resources for building Beit ha-Magen, a monumental memorial hall commemorating the moshavaâÂÂs members who fell fighting the Arabs.</blockquote>
Ra'anana was established south of Tabsur in 1921. Now a city, some of its suburbs have expanded into land that once belonged to the village. Batzra, founded in 1946 on village land, lies to the north.
In 1992, the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi wrote: "The village has been completely covered with Israeli citrus orchards, making it difficult to distinguish from the surrounding lands. Citrus and cypress trees grow on the village land."
The estimated number of Palestinian refugees from Tabsur in 1998 was 2,406.