Village memory · Palestine

Deir al-Hawa

دير الهوا

Jerusalem districtDepopulated 1948

Deir al-Hawa was a tiny hamlet on a high ridge west of Jerusalem — sixty people in 1945, a mosque, and a shrine for a local sage. The Har'el Brigade captured it in October 1948 during Operation Ha-Har and it was obliterated; a Jewish National Fund park now spreads over its lands.

• 60 residents before 1948