Deir Qaddis

Location

Deir Qaddis is located 15.7 km north-west of Ramallah. It is bordered by Kharbatha Bani Harith and Al-Itihad to the east, Shibtin to the north, Ni’lin to the west, and Bil’in to the south.

Etymology

In the 19th century, the name Deir Qaddis was interpreted to mean "monastery of the saint". Qaddis means a holy person and is of Aramaic origin.

History

French explorer Victor Guérin found remains of houses built with large blocks and several cisterns dug into the rock, while SWP (1882) notes a ruined monastery and a nearby cave. According to SWP the name of the village indicated that a convent had existed there.

A survey by Finkelstein and Lederman uncovered no ancient pottery.

Ottoman era

The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as Dayr Qiddis in the Nahiya of Ramlah of the Liwa of Gazza. It had a population of 11 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive- and fruit trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 5,400 akçe. In 1838 Deir el-Kaddis was described as a village in the Beni Hasan area west of Jerusalem.

In 1863 Guérin estimated that Deir Kaddis had about 350 inhabitants, while an Ottoman village list from 1870 showed Der Kaddis had 36 houses and a population of 112, a count that included only men.

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Deir el Kuddis as a "small hamlet on a high hill-top, with gardens to the north [..] There is a well on the east."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Deir Qaddis had a population of 299 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 368 Muslims in 82 houses.

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Deir Qaddis was 440 Muslims, with 8,224 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 1,815 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,069 dunams for cereals, while 8 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

File:Ni'lin 1944.jpg|Deir Qaddis 1944 1:20,000 File:Deir Abu Mash'al 1945.jpg|Deir Qaddis 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Deir Qaddis came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants in Deir Qaddis.

Post-1967

Deir Qaddis came under Israeli occupation during the 1967 Six-Day War. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 461, 25 of whom originated from the Israeli territory.

After the 1995 accords, 7.7% of the village's total area has been classified as Area B land, while the remaining 93.3% is Area C.

According to ARIJ, Israel built three Israeli settlements on the village lands: 1818 dunams for Modi'in Illit, 446 dunams for Nili, 471 dunams for Na'ale.

In 2008, access to some of the village land was cut off by the Israeli West Bank barrier. Access was restored in 2012.

The town's prominent families are Husain, Qattosa, Nasser, Abu Zeid, Hamada, Awadh, Abu Laban and Kreish.

A female IDF soldier was lightly injured in a car ramming attack in the vicinity of Deir Qaddis. The attacker was shot and critically injured by soldiers.

References

Bibliography

References

1. [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Deir_Qaddis_vp_en.pdf Deir Qaddis Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 4
2. (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
3. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/228/mode/1up 228]
4. [http://poica.org/2007/11/the-segregation-wall-an-unlawful-measure-of-land-grab-the-case-of-deir-qiddis-village/ The Case of Deir Qiddis village] Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 10 November 2007.
5. Marom, Roy. (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.
6. Finkelstein, Israel. (1997). "Highlands of Many Cultures". Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section.
7. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 154
8. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearc00smitgoog#page/n155/mode/1up 133]
9. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n83/mode/1up 66]
10. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/123/mode/1up 123]
11. Guérin, 1875, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n112/mode/1up 85]
12. Socin, 1879, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/152/mode/1up 152]
13. Hartmann, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n948/mode/1up 140], also noted 36 houses
14. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/297/mode/1up 297]
15. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Division Jaffa, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n24/mode/1up 22]
16. Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 19]
17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p29.jpg 29]
18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/al-Ramla/Page-066.jpg 66]
19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/al-Ramla/Page-114.jpg 114]
20. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/al-Ramla/Page-164.jpg 164]
21. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p24.pdf 24]
22. Perlmann, Joel. (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version".
23. [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Deir_Qaddis_vp_en.pdf Deir Qaddis Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 16
24. [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Deir_Qaddis_vp_en.pdf Deir Qaddis Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 17
25. [https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/609C27E97571576A85257B02004BADB0 Ocha Monthly report, 2012]
26. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Dayr_Qaddis_972/Article_7920.html History of Dayr Qaddis] Palestine Remembered. {{in lang. ar
27. "IDF says soldier slightly wounded in West Bank car-ramming, assailant in serious condition".