Khadra Mustafa, originally from Al-‘Abbasiyya in the Jaffa district, now resides in the Askar refugee camp in the West Bank.
Al-‘Abbasiyya was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 kilometers east of Jaffa in the
Jaffa Subdistrict of Palestine. Before its destruction during the 1948 Nakba, the village had a population of approximately 6,550 residents.
On December 13, 1947, the village was attacked by the Irgun Zvai Leumi terror gangs, who were disguised as British soldiers. In this assault, nine civilians were killed, including a five-year-old child and a twenty-year-old woman, while seven others were wounded. This marked the beginning of a series of violent events that culminated in the village's eventual depopulation and destruction.
Israeli occupation forces took control of Al-‘Abbasiyya on May 14, 1948, and two weeks later, on May 29, 1948, the village was depopulated as part of Operation Yiftach, conducted by the Palmach's First Battalion. On September 13, 1948, most of the village was destroyed, leaving only the mosque and the shrine of al-Nabi Huda intact.
Jewish settlements, including Savion, Magshimim, and Ganei Tikva, were subsequently established on the village's land. Today, remnants of Al-‘Abbasiyya can still be found in the center of the Israeli city of Yehud.