Isdud (Arabic: إسدود, romanized: ʾisdūd) was a Palestinian village, on the site today known as Tel Ashdod.

Today, the village's ruins form part of the Tel Ashdod archaeological site,[3] which lies within the jurisdiction of the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council.

[4][5] The central village mosque stands at the top of the site, as does the khan and the tomb of Sheikh Abu Qubal.

[7] In the Islamic period, the geographer Ibn Khordadbeh referred to the city as "Azdud", echoing the pre-Hellenistic name.

Asdûdu later led the revolt of Philistines, Judeans, Edomites, and Moabites against Assyria,[12] before one of Sargon II's generals destroyed the city and exiled its residents, including some Israelites who were subsequently settled in Media and Elam.

[18] The geographer Ibn Khordadbeh (c. 820 – 912) referred to the inland city as "Azdud" and described it as a postal station between al-Ramla and Gaza.

During the Mamluk period, Isdud was a key village along the Cairo—Damascus road, which served as a center for rural religious and economic life.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on wheat, barley, sesame and fruit crops, as well as goats and beehives; a total of 14,000 Akçe.

[21][8] Marom and Taxel have shown that during the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, nomadic economic and security pressures led to settlement abandonment around Majdal 'Asqalān, and the southern coastal plain in general.

[9][23] In the late nineteenth century, Isdud was described as a village spread across the eastern slope of a low hill, covered with gardens.

[27] The official Village Statistics, 1945 for "Isdûd" gave a population of 4,620 Arabs and 290 Jews in a total land area of 47,871 dunams [4,787.1 hectares (11,829 acres)].

While the Israelis failed to capture territory, and suffered heavy casualties, Egypt changed its strategy from offensive to defensive, thus halting their advance northwards.