Dayr al-Qassi
Template:Infobox Arab villages depopulated Dayr al-Qassi' or Deir el-Qasi is a former Palestinian village located 26km northeast of the city of Acre. According to a 1945 census the village had a population of 2,300 at a time where the village was apart of larger town also containing the two villages of Fassuta (existent) and al-Mansura. The town was mostly Muslim but had a large Palestinian Christian minority. Its total land area was 34,011 dunums of which only about 8,092 dunums were built upon. One elementary school for boys which was founded during the British Mandate period. It had the springs of al-Fassuta and al-Mansura, and a pool collecting rain water. It had two mosques and two shrines:- one for al-Shaykh Jawhar and the second for Abu Halyun. The village also had a zawiya for the al-Shadhiliyya Sufi brotherhood.
Archeological sites
The village contains ancient artifacts from the Canaanites, Israelites, and Romans periods.
Occupation and etnic cleansing
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Dayr al-Qassi was defended by the Arab Liberation Army but was defeated by Israel during its offensive Operation Hiram on October 30, 1948. Dayr al-Qasi was mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses currently being used by Israeli Jewish settlers and its inhabitants was mostly ethnical cleansed soon after occupation, and the refugees were pushed northward on May 27 1949 to a route leading to Rumaysh in Lebanon, which was known then to the Israelis by al-Qawuqji Route.
