An-Nazla al-Wusta ( ar, النزله الوسطه) is a Palestinian village in the
Tulkarm Governorate
The Tulkarm Governorate ( ar, محافظة طولكرم, Muḥāfaẓat Ṭūlkarm) is an administrative district and one of 16 Governorates of Palestine located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres ...
in the eastern West Bank, located 17 kilometers North-east of Tulkarm.
History
Ottoman era
Pottery remains from the Ottoman era have been found here.Zertal, 2016, p 356 /ref>
In 1882, the
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In the 1945 statistics the population of ''Nazla el Wusta'' was 60
Muslim
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s,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 21 /ref> with 1,609
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 land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 264 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 428 were used for cereals, while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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Jordanian era
In the wake of the
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.
In 1961, the population of ''Nazla Wusta'' was 128.
Post 1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, An-Nazla al-Wusta has been under
Israeli occupation
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.
According to the
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 ...
, an-Nazla al-Wusta had a population of approximately 437 inhabitants in 2017. 38.7% of the population of an-Nazla al-Wusta were refugees in 1997. The healthcare facilities for an-Nazla al-Wusta are based in an-Nazla ash-Sharqiya, where the facilities are designated as MOH level 2.Health care Facilities Tulkarm Governorate /ref>