Fara'ata

Fara'ata ( ar, فرعتا) was a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate in the Western area of the West Bank, located 16 kilometers Southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of approximately 657 inhabitants in 2006.

In 2012 Fara'ata was merged with the larger Immatain village council.

Location

Immatin and Far’ata are located west of Qalqiliya. They are bordered by Tell to the east, Deir Istiya to the south, Jinsafut, Al Funduq and Hajjah to the west, and Kafr Qaddum and Jit to the north.

History

Byzantine ceramics have been found in the village.

Fara'ata was noted in the Samaritan Chronicle (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 in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as ''Fara'ta'', being in the ''Nahiya'' 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
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In 1870 the French explorer Victor Guérin 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'' (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
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Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 317 inhabitants in Fara'ata.

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Fara'ata has been held under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 58.3% of the total village land of Immatain/Fara'ata was assigned as Area B land, while the remaining 41.7% is Area C land. Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality)
ARIJ, p. 16

In 2010, Far'ata was described by Gideon Levy as one of the Palestinian villages where the people "live in terror of the settlers and their accursed ' Price tag,' and nobody came to their defense".Twilight Zone / The mountain that was as a monster
Gideon Levy, May 20, 2010, Haaretz

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External links

Welcome To Far'ata
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:
Wikimedia commons

Immatin Village (including Far’ata Locality) (Fact Sheet)
Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality)
ARIJ
Far’ata, aerial photo
ARIJ
Development Priorities and Needs in Imatin (including Far’ata Locality)
ARIJ

{{Qalqilya Governorate

Qalqilya Governorate
Villages in the West Bank
Ancient Samaritan settlements