The town of El Kseur is supplied with water by the Tichy-Haf Dam located in the locality of Bouhamza.

Due to the mountainous massifs surrounding the city, it snow every year in winter between December and February for high altitudes of over 600 m. The indigenous people called the town of El Kseur Iɣil Mɛebed (in Berber).

During the Algerian War, El Kseur was one of the first regions in Kabylie to join the FLN in 1954, a group of wanted militants of the FLN of the region joined the maquis; Salah Hocine, Tahar Amirouchen, Khatri Madjid, Arezki Oukmamou and his brother Hocine, Mokrane Harani, Kamel Chikhi, Larbi Touati and so many others have to quote their why say so much else they are cleaner.

Faced with a threat France set up prohibited zones in order to cut the resistance of the population and thus deprive them of popular support.

In El Koire, at first, the mountaineers who had been driven out of their villages, often in violence,[3] had to settle near the river in makeshift camps made by their care.

In Ighzer Amokrane, in the Soummam valley, nearly 1,000 people were piled up in deplorable sanitary conditions, infant mortality was very high and hunger deaths were counted by hundreds each month.

Born on June 14, 1928, in Ait Oussalah, a native of Ait Oussalah Arch abrares douar I3MRANEN, Salhi Hocine made his early footsteps in revolutionary militancy in Khemis-Miliana, with his classmate Si M'Hamed Bougara (another future chahid) .

In 1944, on his return to his village of El-Kseur, he set himself the task of strengthening the structure of the Algerian Muslim Scouts movement, to which his contribution gave rise to considerable growth.

His conduct and devotion quickly made him the driving force of this organization, which represents for him the framework of ideal expression of his patriotic convictions.