Dayr al-Hawa

Dayr al-Hawa
Dayr al-Hawa
Arabic
Name Meaning	The Monastery of the Wind
Sub-district	Jerusalem
Coordinates	31°45′04.45″N 35°02′13.60″E
Population	60 (1945)
Area	5,907 dunums
Date of depopulation	October 19–20, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Nes Harim

Dayr al-Hawa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948 by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem. During the 1948 it was defended by the local militia and the Egyptian Army/Muslim Brotherhood Battalion.

In 1945, the village had a population of 60. A mosque was located in the western part of the village and there was a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Sulayman.

See also

• Susan Abulhawa

References

Bibliography

• Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Simon (1896): Archaeological Researches in Palestine 1873-1874, [ARP] Vol. 2, translated from the French by J. McFarlane, Palestine Exploration Fund, London. (see p.219 )
• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881): The survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English name lists collected during the survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and explained by E.H. Palmer.

External links

• Welcome To Dayr al-Hawa
• Dayr Al-Hawa, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Dayr al-Hawa دير الهوا, Palestine Family.net