Ottoman era

Dayr Ammar was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the nahiya of Al-Quds in the liwa of Al-Quds. It had a population of 33 household, who were all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 10,400 akçe. All of the revenue went to a Waqf.^[8] Potsherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.^[5]

In 1838 Deir Ammar was noted as Muslim village in the Beni Harith district, north of Jerusalem.^[9]

In May, 1870, Victor Guérin found the village to be of equal importance to Jammala, and that there was a stream between the two villages where the women went for water when their own cisterns went dry.^[10] An official Ottoman village list from about the same year, 1870, showed that Der Ammar had 35 houses and a population of 226, though the population count included only men.^[11][12]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described 'Deir Ammar as: "a village of medium size on a hill, with a well about 1/2 mile to the west."^[13]

In 1896 the population of Der Ammar was estimated to be about 357 persons.^[14]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dair 'Ammar had a population of 265 Muslims,^[15] increasing in the 1931 census to 316 Muslims in 81 houses.^[16]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 350 Muslims,^[17] while the total land area was 7,189 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.^[18] Of this, 2,242 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,615 for cereals,^[19] while 15 dunams were classified as built-up areas.^[20]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir 'Ammar came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 2,243 inhabitants in Deir 'Ammar.^[21]

1967-present

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir 'Ammar came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 41.2% of Al-Ittihad land was classified as Area B, while the remaining 58.8% was classified as Area C. Israel has confiscated 858 dunams of land from Al-Ittihad for the construction of 4 Israeli settlements: Nahl'iel, Na'aleh, Talmon and Hallamish.^[22]