Dayr Rafat
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| Dayr Rafat | |
|---|---|
| Name meaning | from personal name[1] |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Palestine grid | 146/131 |
| Population | 430 (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | July 18, 1948[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Givat Shemesh[3] |
Dayr Rafat was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was located 26 km west of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War by the Harel Brigade.
History
In the late nineteenth century, Dayr Rafat was described as a small hamlet situated on a ridge with a spring to the west.[4] In a 1931 British census, there were 218 Arabs living in Dayr Rafat, rising to 430 in Sami Hadawi's 1945 land and population survey. The village had a mosque named for al-Hajj Hasan and three khirbas.
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Dayr Rafat, along with four other villages, were overtaken by the Israeli Harel Brigade on 17-18 July 1948 in Operation Dani. The villages had been on the front line since April 1948 and most of the inhabitants of these villages had already left the area. Many of those who stayed fled when Israeli forces attacked and the few who remained at each village were expelled.[5]
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External links
- Welcome To Dayr Rafat
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
