Dayr al-Hawa

Dayr al-Hawa

دير الهوا
Dayr al-Hawa دير الهوا
	Etymology: The Monastery of the Wind
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayr al-Hawa (click the buttons)
	Dayr al-Hawa Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°45′05″N 35°02′14″E / 31.75139°N 35.03722°E
Palestine grid	153/128
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	October 19–20, 1948
Area
• Total	5,907 dunams (5.907 km2 or 2.281 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	60
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Dayr al-Hawa (Arabic: دير الهوا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The village 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.

^ Palmer, 1881, p.293
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 285
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56
^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #339. Also gives cause of depopulation.

Dayr al-Hawa دير الهوا
Etymology: The Monastery of the Wind^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayr al-Hawa (click the buttons)
Dayr al-Hawa Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°45′05″N 35°02′14″E / 31.75139°N 35.03722°E / 31.75139; 35.03722
Palestine grid	153/128
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	October 19–20, 1948^[5]
Area
• Total	5,907 dunams (5.907 km² or 2.281 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	60^[2]^[3]^[4]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces