Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa ( ar, بيت الروش الفوقا) is a Palestinian village located eighteen kilometers southwest of Hebron.The village is in the
Hebron Governorate
The Hebron Governorate ( ar, محافظة الخليل, Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.
The governorate's land area is and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bur ...
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; ar, الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official
statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures a ...
, the village had a population of 1,385 in 2017.
History
Al-Dimashqi The Arabic '' nisbah'' (attributive title) Al-Dimashqi ( ar, الدمشقي) denotes an origin from Damascus, Syria.
Al-Dimashqi may refer to:
* Al-Dimashqi (geographer): a medieval Arab geographer.
* Abu al-Fadl Ja'far ibn 'Ali al-Dimashqi: 12th- ...
(d.1327) noted one area called ''Bait-ras'' in Palestine, and A. F. Mehren thought its description matched the location of the ''Beit er-Rush'' of Robinson.
Ottoman era
In 1838, a ''Beit er-Rush'' was noted by Edward Robinson as a place "in ruins or deserted," part of the area between the mountains and
Gaza
Gaza may refer to:
Places Palestine
* Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip
** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip Lebanon
* Ghazzeh, a village in ...
, but subject to the government of
el-Khulil
Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after East Jer ...
.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 6 /ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 117 /ref>
In 1863, Victor Guérin noted about the ruins here: ”These ruins consist of a large number of heaps of irregular materials. Each of these heaps surrounds a cave hollowed in the rock, into which there is a descent of steps, or by an incline. These subterranean dwellings formed the basement of one-storied houses which stood above them. These have been pulled down and put up again several times, while the cellars are just the same as when they were cut in the rock."Guérin, 1869, pp 347 348; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p 274 /ref>
In 1883, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' noted here: ”Traces of ruins on a mound.”Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p 274 /ref>
British Mandate era
At the time of the
1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine.
* Census of P ...
the population of the village, called ''Kh. Beit er Rush al Ulya'', was counted under
Dura
Dura may also refer to: Đura such as, for example, Đura Bajalović
Geography
* Dura language, a critically endangered language of Nepal
* Dura, Africa, an ancient city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see
* Dura-Europos, an ancient c ...
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...
, and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 162 inhabitants in Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p 22 /ref>
Post 1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa has been under
Israeli occupation
Israeli-occupied territories are the lands that were captured and occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. While the term is currently applied to the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights, it has also been used to refer to a ...