Dayr 'Amr
Abandoned village · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 10
- Coordinates
- 31.777, 35.096
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade, during the second stage of Operation Dan.
History
Dayr 'Amr was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade, during the second stage of Operation Dan. It was located 12.5 km west of Jerusalem. Dayr 'Amr was named after a local sage known by al-Sa'i 'Amr and a shrine was in the village dedicated to him.