Al-Asakra () is a

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village in the

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in the south-central

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, located 4.5 kilometers southeast of

Bethlehem Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem, and the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. It had a population of people, as of . The city's economy is strongly linked to Tourism in the State of Palesti ...

. It is a part of the Jannatah municipality. According to the

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, the village had a population of over 1,001 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Al-Asakra has a land area of 2,116

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

s and is a part of the larger Arab al- Ta'amira village cluster, lies between the towns of Tuqu' and Za'atara covering an area of 217,236 dunams (21 km²). Agriculture is the main economic activity of the region, which is located in Area 'C' and falls under the control of the Israel civil administration.Israeli Demolition Activities in the Village of al ‘Asakreh
Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2 November 2007. Settled relatively recently by the at-Ta'mira Bedouin tribe, it is part of the 'Arab al-Ta'mira village cluster, along with Za'atara, Beit Ta'mir, Hindaza, Tuqu', Khirbet ad-Deir (today part of Tuqu'), Nuaman and Ubeidiya.

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