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Welcome To Dayr Nakhkhas - دير النخاس (דיר נח'אס)

District of Hebron
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Occupation Date October 29, 1948
Distance From District 20 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation 325 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Map Location See location #13 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yo'av (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon).
Defenders Egyptian Army
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Dayr Nakhkhas was completely destroyed with the exception of few deserted and partially destroyed houses.
Ethnically Cleansing Soon after the massacre committed at al-Dawayima, a nearby village, Dayr Nakhkhas inhabitants were terrorized in leaving their village.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 8,923
Jewish 0
Public 5,553
**Total 14,476
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 362
Olive Groves 424
Planted W/ Cereal 4,887
Built up 22
Arable 5,249
Non-Arable 9,205
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1596 72
1922 336
1931 451
1945 600
1948 696
Est. Refugees 1998 4,274
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 86
1948 132
Near By Townswhat's new
Tall al-Safi
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'Ajjur
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Umm Burj, Khirbat
↗        
Bayt Jibrin  ←
Dayr Nakhkhas
→   Bayt Aula
            ↙
al-Qubayba
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al-Dawayima
↘           
Idna
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village overlooks Wadi Bayt Jibrin to the north.
Archeological Sites Dayr Nakhkhas was built on top of an archaeological site, and it also contains fifteen other archaeological sites.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a hilltop underlain by hard limestone, overlooking Wadi Bayt Jibrin to the north. It was on the south side of the Hebron-Bayt Jibrin-al-Majdal highway and was linked to several adjacent villages by secondary roads. The second part of its name, Nakhkhas, may have been derived from a common Semitic word for copper. In 1596, Dayr Nakhkhas was a village in the nahiya of Halil , in the liwa' of Jerusalem, with a population of seventy-two. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives.

In the late nineteenth century, Dayr Nakhkhas was a small village perched on a high steep hill overlooking a valley to the north. Rectangular in layout, the village expanded along, and toward, the road linking it to Hebron. The people of Dayr Nakhkhas were Muslims, and their houses were built of stone. The children attended schools in the adjacent villages. The residents of Dayr Nakhkhas were engaged mainly in agriculture and animal husbandry they cultivated a number of crops, especially grain, olives, and grapes. In 1944/45 a total of 4,887 dunums was allotted to cereals 362 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Their nonagricultural land, overgrown with woods, shrubs, and wild grasses, served as pasture for their goats and sheep. Dayr Nakhkhas was located in an area rich in archaeological sites. In the nearly 15,000 dunums that belonged to the village there were some fifteen sites, including the village itself (which was built over an archaeological site).

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

The village was occupied at the same time as Bayt Jibrin, in the third stage of Operation Yo' av. After the bulk of the operation was over, some Israeli units continued to advance eastwards in the Hebron area, occupying Dayr Nakhkhas on 29 October 1948. On the same day, the Israelis perpetrated a massacre at nearby al-Dawayima. Israeli historian Benny Morris claims that the massacre precipitated a massive flight of people from the area around Dayr Nakhkhas.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. Nechusha, founded in 1982, is about 3 km due west on the land of Khirbat Umm Burj.

Village Today

Nothing remains of the village except a few deserted houses and the rubble of others. One deserted house is made of concrete and has rectangular windows and a flat roof. It is marked with Arabic graffiti and stands in the midst of tall wild grasses and weeds. There is a fenced-in cave. The surrounding land is cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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