It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.

In 1945 the village had a population of 1,100 (this figure included 400 Jewish residents of the Kibbutzim ‘Amir and Sde Nehemia).

According to the 1931 census of Palestine, one Christian lived there, and the remainder were Muslim.

[5] In the 1944/45 statistics Dawwara had population of 700 Muslims,[1] where Arabs owned 2,753 dunams of land.

"[5] The Israeli settlements of Kibbutz 'Amir and Sde Nechemya are both on Al-Dawwara village land.