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2012–13 Palestinian Local Elections
Local elections were held in the Palestinian territories on 20 October 2012, with a second part to be held on 24 November 2012.Registration for the upcoming local elections is now open Central Elections Commission A total of 245 village councils, 98 municipal councils and 10 local councils would be elected. Background Local elections had originally been scheduled for 17 July 2010. However, the Central Election Commission was unable to operate in the Hamas-controlled , resulting in the Palestinian government announcing on 25 April that the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian territories are the two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been militarily occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967, namely: the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has referred to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as "the Occupied Palestinian Territory", and this term was used as the legal definition by the ICJ in its advisory opinion of July 2004. The term occupied Palestinian territory was used by the United Nations and other international organizations between October 1999 and December 2012 to refer to areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority, but from 2012, when Palestine was admitted as one of its non-member observer states, the United Nations started using exclusively the name State of Palestine. The European Union (EU) also adopts the term occupied Palestinian territory, with a parallel term Palestinian Authority territories also occasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Anin
Anin ( ar, عانين) a Palestinian village in the West Bank governorate of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 3,719 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. History Potsherds from Iron Age I,Zertal, 2016, pp127 IA II, Persian, early and late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here. "Immediately north of the village is a rock-cut passage large enough to walk along, extending about 50 feet and lined with cement; it then becomes about a foot high. This leads out on to a flat surface of rock.(...) Two rock-cut tombs, now blocked, exist west of this." Ottoman era 'Anin, like the rest of Israel, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 it was a part of the ''nahiya'' ("subdistrict") of Sahil Atlit which was under the administration of the '' liwa'' ("district") of Lajjun. The village had a population of 16 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zababdeh
Zababdeh or Zababida ( ar, الزبابدة) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located southeast of Jenin and from the Arab American University. History Sherds from Middle Bronze Age II, Iron Age I & II, through to the Byzantine era have been found at the site.Zertal, 2007, p126/ref> Remains of a Frankish ''bovaria'' (=farm) has been noted, while sherds from the Mamluk and Ottoman era have also been found. Ottoman era The village was (re-)founded in 1834, during the Ottoman era, by three Christian Greek Orthodox families who purchased the land from Jenin Muslims.Alain Epp Weaver'The crescent and the cross are the marks on my hands: The performance of Palestinian unity amid political fragmentation,'in Paul S Rowe, John H.A. Dyck, Jens Zimmermann (eds.) ''Christians and the Middle East Conflict,'' Routledge 2014 pp.137-151, p.138. In 1838 "Zabedet" was noted as a Greek Christian village in the ''Haritheh'' area, north of Nablus.Robinson and Smith, 1841, v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silat Ad-Dhahr
Silat ad-Dhahr ( ar, سيلة الظهر) is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 22 kilometers southwest of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 5,794 in 2007.2007 Locality Population Statistics (PCBS). p. 107. The healthcare facilities for the surrounding villages are based in Silat adh Dhahr, the facilities are designated as MOH level 2. The average elevation of the town is 400 meters above sea level. The population in 1997 was 4,439, according to the |
Rummanah
Rummanah ( ar, رمّانه) is a Palestinian village located northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,372 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. History The SWP found cisterns cut in the rock and a well. Dauphin described the place as being an ancient village on a hill slope, with traces of ancient remains, including cisterns and caves carved into rock. Ottoman era Rumana, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain. In the census of 1596, the village was located in the ''nahiya'' of Sara in the ''liwa'' of Lajjun. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim. The villagers p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raba, Jenin
Raba ( ar, رابا) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate. History Pottery sherds from the Persian (15%), Hellenistic (20%), early and late Roman (10%+5%), Byzantine (20%), early Muslim (10%) and the Middle ages (10%) have been found here.Zertal, 2007, pp1723 Ottoman era Raba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 10% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the ''nahiya'' of Jabal Sami in the '' liwa'' of Nablus. Raba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 23 families. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 3,500 akçe. In 1838 ''Rabeh'' was noted as a village in the ''Haritheh'' di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qabatiya
Qabatiya ( ar, قباطية, also spelled Qabatia, Qabatya, and Kabatiya) is a Palestinian city located in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 6 km south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 19,197 in 2007. where the Christians were all Orthodox.Barron, 1923, Table XV, p47/ref> This increased to 2,447 in the 1931 census; 2 Christians and the rest Muslims, in a total of 551 houses.Mills, 1932, p71/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population of Qabatiya, together with Kh. Tannin, was 3,670, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p16/ref> with 50,547 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 9,542 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 21,464 dunams for cereals, while 113 dunams were built-up (urban) land and 19,428 sunams were classified as "non-cultivable". Jordanian era In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenin
Jenin (; ar, ') is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007, Jenin had a population of approximately 40,000 people, whilst the Jenin refugee camp had a population of 10,000.Judea.html" ;"title=" traveler taking the road from Galilee to Judea"> traveler taking the road from Galilee to Judea over Mount Tabor] would arrive", was the one which rejected the disciples of Jesus in Luke's Gospel at the point where Jesus and his followers begin his journey towards Jerusalem. Ceramics dating from the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine era have been found here. There is no mention of Jenin in the reports of the Muslim conquest of the Levant, Muslim Arab conquest of the Levant from the Byzantines, which, according to the historian Moshe Sharon, "is not surprising, since it was a small place of minor importance".Sharon 2017, p. 172. Crusader, Ay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaba, Jenin
Jaba' ( ar, جبع) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine, located southwest of the city of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 8,942 in the 2007 census. The village is situated on the slopes of the Jabal Dabrun mountain. The village and its immediate vicinity contain a number of archaeological sites, including a tomb for a certain Neby Yarub. During the Ottoman era, Jaba' served as a throne village of the powerful Jarrar family. The town is administered by a municipal council, currently headed by Bassam Jarrar. Etymology The village's name ''Jaba is the Hebrew word for "hill", according to Edward Henry Palmer, writing in 1881..Palmer, 1881, p147/ref> Biblical scholars Edward Robinson and Eli Smith believed that the village's name made it "decidedly another ancient Geba or Gibeah", but they were not aware of the existence of an ancient village with either ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandaqumiya
Fandaqumiya, ( ar, الفندقومية, ''al-Fandaqumiyah'', ''Pentakomia'') is a Palestinian village located in the Jenin Governorate of the northern West Bank, northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,363 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Etymology The Arabic name of the village, Al Fandaqumiyah (الفندقومي), is a corruption of the Greek term Pentakomia: ''Komia'' means 'village' or 'community', while ''penta'' means 'five'. Pentakomia probably refers to an administrative unit of five villages which existed in the area.Palmer, 1881, p182/ref> A Pentakomia in Greece as well as one on the Euphrates River probably share the etymology, and the Hebron area village of Tarqumiyah (Arabic ترقوميا) is based on the Greek ''Trikomia'', or 'community of three.' Geography Fandaqumiya is located in the northern West Bank, on the road leading north from Nablus to Jenin. The village is partly situated on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burqin, Palestine
Burqin ( ar, برقين) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located 5 km west of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, its population was 5,685 in 2007. Pottery sherds from the Early Bronze I, Early Bronze IIB, Late Bronze III, Iron Age I, Iron Age II, late Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad/Abbasid, Medieval and early Ottoman era have been found. Ottoman era In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as ''Bruqin'', located in the ''Nahiya'' of Jabal Sami of the '' Liwa'' of Nablus. The population was 23 households and 4 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives; a total of 7980 akçe. In 1799, Pierre Jacotin placed the village, named ''Berkin'', nearly straight west of Jenin on his map.Noted in 1838 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bir Al-Basha
Bir al-Basha ( ar, بئر الباشا ) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 15 km southwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,307 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. In the wake of the , and after the |
