Dayr Abu Salama (
Arabic
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: دير ابو سلامة) was a small
Palestinian Arab village in the
Ramle Subdistrict, located 8 km northeast of
Ramla. It was depopulated during the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...
on July 13, 1948, in the first phase of
Operation Dani.
History
Late Ottoman period
In 1882 the
PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) noted at Deir Abu Salameh: "Foundations, heaps of stones, and a few pillar shafts."
By the beginning of the 20th century, residents from neighbouring
Ni'lin settled the site, establishing it as a dependency – or satellite village – of their home village.
British Mandate
In the
1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
conducted by the
British Mandate authorities, ''Dair Abu Salameh'' had a population of 30 inhabitants; all
Muslim
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s,
[Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p]
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In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 60 Muslims[ with 1,195 dunams of land.][ Of this, 41 dunams were either irrigated or used for orchards, 695 used for cereals, while 459 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.][Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.]
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A shrine for a local sage known as ''al-Shaykh Abu Salam''a is also located in the village.[Khalidi, 1992, p. 374]
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Israel
Dayr Abu Salama was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...
on July 13, 1948, in the first phase of Operation Dani.[
In 1992 the village site was described: "The site has been converted into an Israeli picnic area and is surrounded by stands of pine and cypress trees. Workers for the Jewish National Fund have used stones retrieved from the destroyed village houses to construct a watchtower and an ]amphitheater
An amphitheatre ( U.S. English: amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ('), from ('), meaning "on both sides" or "around" and ('), meaning "place for vie ...
on the village site. The area in front of the amphitheater has been leveled and is covered by a green lawn. Old fig and olive trees still grow there; cactuses and carob trees grow on the western and northern edges of the site."[Khalidi, 1992, p. 375]
References
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External links
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14:
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{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Ramla