page_title: Dayr Aban
section_title: 1948, aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Dayr Aban / History / 1948, aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Houses being blown up by the Harel Brigade October 1948
context_page_description: Dayr Aban was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh. It was formerly bordered by olive trees to the north, east, and west. The valley, Wadi en-Najil, ran north and south on the west-side of the village. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948, during Operation Ha-Har. It was located 21 km west of Jerusalem.
context_section_description: On 4 August 1948, two weeks into the Second truce of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestinian nationalist Amin al Husseini noted that ‘for two weeks now . . . the Jews have continued with their attacks on the Arab villages and outposts in all areas. Stormy battles are continuing in the villages of Sataf, Deiraban, Beit Jimal, Ras Abu ‘Amr, ‘Aqqur, and ‘Artuf . . .’
  The village became depopulated on 19–20 October 1948, after a military assault during Operation Ha-Har. Egyptian forces joined by local militias from Dayr Aban had fought alongside each other against the advancing Israeli army. Through the second half of 1948, the IDF, under Ben-Gurion’s tutelage, continued to destroy Arab villages, including Dayr Aban on 22 October 1948.
  After the war, the ruin of Dayr Abban remained under Israeli control under the terms of the 1949 Armistice Agreement between Israel and Jordan, until such time that the agreement was dissolved in 1967.
  The moshav of Mahseya was later established near the site of the old village, on the land of Dayr Aban, as was Tzora, Beit Shemesh and Yish'i.
caption: Houses being blown up by the Harel Brigade October 1948
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