The only institution in the village is the Village Council. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 301.[6]
In 2004, Israel started constructing the West Bank barrier near the village; 1500 meters of which pass through village land. 500 dunams of village land have been lost due to the wall; including 400 dunams now isolated behind the wall.[7]
According to statistics provided by ARIJ, in 2009, some 40% of the village's population worked in Israel, being issued permits to work on the Israeli side of the Green Line.[8] The villagers are all Muslims.
Khirbet al-Deir, seen to the east of the Wadi es-Ṣur valley
Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
External links
Palestine Remembered, Welcome To Kh. al-Dayr
ARIJ. Aerial photo
ARIJ. The priorities and needs for development in Khirbet ad Deir village based on the community and local authorities' assessment
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons