Al-Fukhari ( ar, الفَخّاري, also spelled al-Fokari or al-Fukhkhari) is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

town in the

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, located between Khuza'a and

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. It sits on the eastern side of the Sufa Crossing road, just west of the border with

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

.Israel's Unlawful Destruction of Property During Operation Cast Lead

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. May 2010. pp-104-105. In the 1997 census by the

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(PCBS), it had a population of 2,616, rising to an estimated 5,539 in 2008.Fukhkhari Profile

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(JMCC). During the 2005 Palestinian municipal elections, the

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party and Independents won the majority of seats in al-Fukhari's municipal council. The town's mayor is Hasan al-Amouri. Al-Fukhari's total land area consists of 4,767 dunams of which 37.3% is built-up (overwhelmingly residential) and most of the remainder used for agricultural purposes.Administrative Divisions of Governorates
. Palestinian State Information Services.

Effects of Gaza War

During Israel's 2008-09 offensive against the

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government in the Gaza Strip, 13 houses in al-Fukhari belonging to a total of 85 people, mostly members of the extended Amouri and Eid families, were destroyed by the

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according to a

report. The Amouri family claimed that 30

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

s of their olive trees were razed while the Eid family reported that a large part of their 20-dunam wheat farm were flattened by Israeli military vehicles. Just outside al-Fukhari, the Abu Sita concrete factory and 13 company vehicles were also destroyed. HRW concluded the factory and its equipment had been bulldozed by the Israeli military. The Amouri family stated that there were no militants active in the area at the time of the Israeli incursion and that militants had commandeered their homes previously.

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