This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Dayr 'Amr was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict.

It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade, during the second stage of Operation Dan.

In 1863, Victor Guérin found here a wali, devoted to a Sheikh Amer, and this wali gave name to the neighbouring "ruin", which he described as "twenty small chambers, half of which have been collapsed and enclosed within the same enclosure: they were constructed with materials of all kinds and date from the Middle Ages."

[8] Freya Stark recalled how she met with Ahmad Samih Khalidi, the principal of Arab College (Jerusalem), and "his charming Syrian wife" and inspected the orphanage which was built at Dayr 'Amr.

The Bezek telephone and television company has established a large facility, with radar equipment, at the southern edge of the site.