Village memory · Palestine

Dayr al-Dubban

دَيْر الدُبّان

Hebron districtDepopulated 1948

Dayr al-Dubban was a village of 730 people on a slope at the end of the Hebron foothills, farming two grain crops a year on land it divided in halves and rested by turns. The Giv'ati Brigade took it on 23–24 October 1948. Its old roads can still be traced through the thorn.