This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Abasan al-Saghira (Arabic: عبسان الصغيرة) is a Palestinian agricultural town located in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern Gaza Strip.
It is located 2 km southeast of Khan Yunis.
According to the 2017 census conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Abasan al-Saghira had a population of 9,290.
[1] In 1886, at the end of the Ottoman era, Abasan al-Saghira consisted of about ten huts, with old building stones.
[2] In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Abassan (presumably both Abasan al-Kabira and Abasan al-Saghira) had a population of 695; all Muslims,[3] increasing in the 1931 census (when they were clearly counted together) to 1144, still all Muslim, in 186 houses.