Dayr al-Hawa

Dayr al-Hawa
دير الهوا
Etymology: The Monastery of the Wind
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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 grid153/128
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulationOctober 19–20, 1948
Area
  Total
5,907 dunams (5.907 km2 or 2.281 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
  Total
60
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary 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.