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 ...
village in the
Qalqilya Governorate
The Qalqilya Governorate or Qalqiliya Governorate () is an administrative area of Palestine in the northwestern West Bank. Its capital or ''muhfaza'' (seat) is the city of Qalqilya that borders the Green Line.
Localities
Municipalities
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in the Western area of the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, located 16 kilometers Southwest of Nablus. According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures ...
, the village had a population of approximately 657 inhabitants in 2006.
In 2012 Fara'ata was merged with the larger
Immatain
Immatain ( ar, إماتين) is a Palestinian village located in the northwestern West Bank, in the Qalqilya Governorate of the State of Palestine, about seventeen kilometers southwest of Nablus. The current mayor of Immatain is Haythem Sawan.
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village council.
Location
Immatin and Far’ata are located west of
Qalqiliya
Qalqilya or Qalqiliya ( ar, قلقيلية, Qalqīlyaḧ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank which serves as the administrative center of the Qalqilya Governorate of the State of Palestine. In the 2007 census, the city had a population of 41, ...
Deir Istiya
Deir Istiya ( ar, دير إستيا) is a Palestinian town of 5,200 located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, southwest of Nablus. The built-up area of Deir Istiya is 74 dunams, and its old city has about thirty families. Locati ...
Hajjah
Hajjah ( ar, حَجَّة, Ḥajjah) is the capital city of Hajjah Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is located 127 kilometres northwest of Sana'a, at an elevation of about 1800 metres. As of 2003, the Hajjah City District had a population ...
to the west, and
Kafr Qaddum
Kafr Qaddum ( ar, كفر قدّوم) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located 13 kilometers west of Nablus and 17 kilometers east of Qalqilya in the Qalqilya Governorate. Surrounding towns include Jit to the east and Hajjah to th ...
and
Jit
Jit (also known as jiti, jit-jive and the Harare beat) is a style of popular Zimbabwean dance music. It features a swift rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar. Jit evolved out many diverse influences, including domestic chimurenga, ...
to the north.
History
Byzantine
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ceramics have been found in the village.
Fara'ata was noted in the
Samaritan Chronicle
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(from the 12th century) under the name of Ophrah, while it has been known under its present name since the 14th century.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp 162 163
Ottoman era
Fara'ata was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire
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in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as ''Fara'ta'', being in the ''
Nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' of Jabal Qubal of the '' Liwa'' of Nablus. It had a population of 12 households and 6 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 4,500 Akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
In 1838, ''Fer'ata'' was noted as located in ''Jurat Merda'', south of Nablus.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127 /ref>
In 1870 the French explorer
Victor Guérin
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visited Fara'ata, which he described having "a very small number" of people, with some cisterns and remains of a stone sarcophagus as remnants of former history.
In the PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
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'' (SWP) (1882), Fara'ata was described as a "small village of ancient appearance, standing on a . mound, with a rock-cut tomb to the south, and a sacred Mukam to the east."
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Far'ata had a population of 36, all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p 25 /ref> increasing in the 1931 census to of 47 Muslims, in a total of 11 houses.
In the 1945 statistics the population of Far'ata was 70 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 18 /ref> while the total land area was 1,664 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 56 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 961 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p 106 /ref> while 10 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p 156 /ref>
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 317 inhabitants in Fara'ata.
Post-1967
Since the
Six-Day War
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in 1967, Fara'ata has been held under
Israeli occupation
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.
After the 1995 accords, 58.3% of the total village land of Immatain/Fara'ata was assigned as
Area B
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Gideon Levy
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as one of the Palestinian villages where the people "live in terror of the
settler
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A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a pioneer.
Settl ...
s and their accursed '
Price tag
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Some jurisdictions require items (possibly exceptions for bulk good and produce) to be individually marked with the pri ...
Gideon Levy
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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ; ar, معهد الابحاث التطبيقية - القدس) is a Palestinian NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in Bethlehem in the West Bank. ARIJ is actively working on research proje ...