Dayr Rafat

Dayr Rafat
دير رفات
Village
Etymology: from personal name[1]
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Dayr Rafat is located in Mandatory Palestine
Dayr Rafat
Dayr Rafat
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°46′27″N 34°57′31″E / 31.77417°N 34.95861°E / 31.77417; 34.95861
Palestine grid146/131
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulationJuly 18, 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total430[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesGivat Shemesh[5]

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.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 324
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #333. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 287

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