| Deir Razih | |
| Translit Lang1: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Info: | دير رازح |
| Translit Lang1 Type1: | Latin |
| Translit Lang1 Info1: | Khirbet Deir Razih (official) Dayr Razih (unofficial) |
| Type: | Local Development Committee |
| Pushpin Map: | Palestine |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Deir Razih within Palestine |
| Coordinates: | 31.4667°N 35.0417°W |
| Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
| Grid Position: | 154/096 |
| Subdivision Type: | State |
| Subdivision Name: | State of Palestine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Hebron |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Area Total Km2: | 0.5 |
| Area Total Dunam: | 540 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 294 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Name meaning |
| Blank Info Sec1: | "the ruin of the monastery of the man of Rai"[2] |
Deir Razih (Arabic: دير رازح) is a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank located 11km (07miles) southwest of Hebron, in the Hebron Governorate. It relies mainly on nearby Dura for basic services. Its total land area is made of 540 dunams, including its built-up area. The village had a population of 294 residents in 2017.
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[3]
French explorer Victor Guérin visited the place in 1863, during the late Ottoman era. He described it as a ruin, with one structure larger than the rest above an underground magazine.[4]
In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found "walls, cisterns and caves. Rock-cut tombs to the east" of the village.[5]
At the time of the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of Kh. Dair Razih was counted under Dura.[6]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kh. Dair Razih came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 130 inhabitants in Deir Razih.[7]
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir Razih has been under Israeli occupation.
In the summer of 2007, a group of Israeli settlers from Otniel accompanied by soldiers and a bulldozers entered village lands and uprooted 150 olive, almond and pine trees. Having done this they, also, set fire to the land causing damage to crops and pastures. Fire brigades from the Palestinian municipalities of Dura and as-Samu' extinguish the fires soon after.
In the 1997 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a total population of 236, of which 11.9% were Palestinian refugees.[8] By mid-year 2006, there were 328 inhabitants.[9] However, the PCBS census of 2007 revealed that the population was 268.[10] Deir Razih is inhabited by the extended families of Amru, Abu Arqub, Hija, and the al-Azazmeh Bedouins. Most residents depend on agriculture as main income.[11]
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 1: Judee, pt. 3. 1869. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.
. Edward Henry Palmer. 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.
