From the Pages of the Defter (ص 144)

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Muhammad b. Hamdan Hamida and the other to Hasan b. Salih Musa, were valued at and
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slightly above the district-average value, at 3,000 and 3,375 kurus respectively.
understand that the village was relatively rich in olives.
Dayr al-Hawa’s olive groves, as well as its field-crop land, were registered en bloc to the village.
In this hilltop village, trees were planted on slopes and terraces, and grains were planted in the
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valleys.~ Collectively, the village registered 4,172 olive trees and 1,125 dunams of tarla.
Although it is not known how many shareholders had stake in these lands, we can take the
number of residences as a rough estimate. This calculation yields an average of 166.88 olive
trees as well as 45 dunams of tarla available for each household, in addition to individuals’
gardens, placing the small village just above the conventionally placed threshold of subsistence.
Sar‘a
Dayr al-Hawa’s neighbor to the north was likewise a small village of twenty-six residences, and
it would share its neighbor’s fate in 1948. In All That Remains, the village is described in the
years before its demise as having three quarters, mud-and-stone houses, 115 dunams of olive
trees, 2,979 dunams of field-crop land, and 194 dunams of orchards. The village was located
232 Feas-1 Emlak, entries 3207, 3194, 3215.
*33 Walid Khalidi, ed. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
(Washington, DC: 1992): 285.
*34 Esas-1 Emlak, entry 3243. To compare, Village Statistics of 1945 lists only 1,565 metric dunams of cereal
land belonging to the village. (p. 102).
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