Dayr Rafat

Dayr Rafat

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Dayr Rafat دير رفات
Village
	Etymology: from personal name
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayr Rafat (click the buttons)
	Dayr Rafat Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°46′27″N 34°57′31″E / 31.77417°N 34.95861°E
Palestine grid	146/131
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	July 18, 1948
Population (1945)
• Total	430
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Givat Shemesh

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.

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

Dayr Rafat دير رفات
Village
Etymology: from personal name^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayr Rafat (click the buttons)
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 grid	146/131
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	July 18, 1948^[4]
Population (1945)
• Total	430^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Givat Shemesh^[5]