Dayr Rafat

Dayr Rafat
Dayr Rafat
Arabic
District Jerusalem
Population 430 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation July 18, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities Givat Shemesh[2]

Dayr Rafat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 18, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade, during the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 26 km west of Jerusalem.

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History

In the late nineteenth century, Dayr Rafat was described as a small hamlet situated on a ridge with a spring to the west.[3]

In a 1931 British census, there were 218 Arabs living in Deir Rafat, rising to 430 in Sami Hadawi's 1945 land and population survey. Most of its inhabitants fled the village after its capture by the Har'el Brigade in Operation Dani during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village was completely destroyed, except for the monastery. In 2006 it had a population of 81. Palestinian refugees from Deir Rafat and their descendants numbered 3,063 in 1998.[4]

In 1945, the village had a population of 430. The village had a mosque named after al-Hajj Hasan and has three khirbas.

References

  1. ^ Morris, 2004, p.xx, village #333. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  2. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 287
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener: SWP III, 1881, p.13, Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 287
  4. ^ Welcome To Dayr Rafat Palestine Remembered.

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