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| Dayr 'Amr District of Jerusalem دير عمرو - דיר עמר Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
July 17, 1948
Distance from district center
12.5 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation from the sea
750 (meters)
Map location
See location number #19 on the map
Israeli military operation
Second stage of Operation Dani
Israeli attacking brigade
Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade
Exodus Cause
Expulsion by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisDayr 'Amr has mostly survived destruction (one of the miracle in the area?), most of the its houses are currently occupied and being renovated by Israeli Jewish settlers.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisDayr 'Amr inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
3,072
Jewish
0
Public
0
Total
3,072
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
18
Area planted w/ olives
5
Planted W/ Cereal
650
Cultivable
668
Non-Cultivable
2,404
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
434
1945
10
1948
719
Est. Refugees 1998
4,800
Number of houses
In (1931): 110 (includes Suba)
Town's name through history
Dayr 'Amr was named after a local sage known by al-Sa'i 'Amr.
Schools
In 1942, the General Arab Orphans' Committee (a private body based in Jerusalem) established in Dayr 'Amr a model Boys' Farm. In 1946, the farm had about 60 students. The school remain standing which is currently being used as a hospital by Israelis.
Shrines/maqams
A shrine for a local sage known by al-Sa'i 'Amr, whom the village was named after.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
The Boys' Farm were transformed into an Israeli mental hospital, Eytanim and Bezek telephone and television company has established a large facility with radar equipment at the southern edge of the site.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
The site is surrounded with a fence and a guarded gate. All the houses still stand and new extensions have been added to some of them. Large cypress and carob trees grow among the houses. There is an olive grove on the southern edge of the village. The Bezek telephone and television company has established a large facility, with radar equipment, at the southern edge of the site. The psychiatric hospital of Eytanim is nearby
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