Deir Al Hatab

Deir al-Hatab ( ar, دير الحطب) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located east of Nablus, near the neighbouring villages of Salem and Azmout. The village land extends over 12,000 dunams, of which 330 are built-up.Amira Hass
'Continuous invasions by settlers spoil the joy of Palestinians’ olive harvest,'
Haaretz, 26 October 2014.

The Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh was illegally established within Deir al-Hatab's jurisdiction, taking up nearly 2,000 dunams of the village's land.Deir al Hatab Village Profile
ARIJ

In June, 2016, Deir al-Hatab and other towns and villages in the area had to go without running water for weeks, as the Israeli Mekorot reduced the amount of water it sold to the Palestinians.

Location

Deir al Hatab is located east of Nablus. It is bordered by Beit Dajan to the east, Al ‘Aqrabaniya and ‘Azmut to the north, ‘Azmut and Nablus to the west, and Salim to the south.

History

There was a human habitation here during the Iron Age II time.

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here. Much pottery from the Umayyad era have been found around the maqam of Sheikh Ahmed.

Ottoman era

In 1838, in the Ottoman era, Edward Robinson noted Deir al-Hatab as a village in the same area as the villages Azmut and Salim, all Muslim villages that were part of the ''El-Beitawy'' district, east of Nablus.

When Victor Guérin visited in 1870, he found that Deir al-Hatab had at most 100 inhabitants. He further noted that the many dilapidated houses showed that the village had formerly been more important. The ancient cisterns dug into the rock were dry, so the women fetched water at ''A'ïn Salem''.

In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described it as a "small village, with olives and a well to the south, standing on a hill slope."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Deir al-Hatab had a population of 234, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 277, still all Muslim, in total of 51 houses.Mills, 1932, p
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In the 1945 statistics, ''Deir el Hatab'' had a population of 370, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
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/ref> with 11,532 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 4 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 679 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,172 used for cereals, while 33 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements

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