Budrus ( ar, بٌدرُس) is a

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 Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 31 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern

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 ...

. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 1,399 inhabitants in 2007.

Location

Budrus is located north-west of Ramallah. It is bordered by

Qibya Qibya ( ar, قبية) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in. It is part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, and according to the Palestinian Central Bu ...

and

Ni'lin Ni'lin ( ar, نعلين) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located west of Ramallah. Ni'lin is about east of the 1949 Armistice Line (Green Line) bordered by Deir Qaddis, the Israeli set ...

to the east, Qibya to the north, the Green line to the west, and Ni'lin to the south.

History

"Budrus" is Arabic for "

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" and in ancient times the village was known as ''Patris''. The site of the modern village is just east of the 1949 armistice line, while the ancient village was probably 2 km away at Khirbet Budrus, on the west side of the line.Dauphin, 1998, p. 831Tsafrir, Di Segni and Green, 1994, p. 200 It was mentioned in the Jewish

Tosefta The Tosefta ( Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תוספתא "supplement, addition") is a compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishnah. Overview In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah ( ...

( Demai 1) as being included in the boundary of the southern mountains of

Judea Judea or Judaea ( or ; from he, יהודה, Standard ''Yəhūda'', Tiberian ''Yehūḏā''; el, Ἰουδαία, ; la, Iūdaea) is an ancient, historic, Biblical Hebrew, contemporaneous Latin, and the modern-day name of the mountainous sou ...

.Conder and Conder, 1880, p
307
/ref> Archeological remains from the

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and the

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

eras have been found.

Ottoman era

In 1596, Budrus appeared in Ottoman tax registers as 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 Ramla of the '' Liwa'' of Gaza. It had a population of 46 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives or summer crops, goats or beehives and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 3,608 akçe. 7/24 of the revenue went to a

Waqf A waqf ( ar, وَقْف; ), also known as hubous () or '' mortmain'' property is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law. It typically involves donating a building, plot of land or other assets for Muslim religious or charitab ...

. In 1838, Budrus was counted as a Muslim village in the Gaza District,Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.
118
/ref> noted from the tower of the White Mosque of Ramleh. In 1870,

Victor Guérin Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 Septembe 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included Greece, Asia Min ...

saw Budrus from a distance, situated on a high hill. He was told that to the west of this village, on a neighboring hill, there were ruins with the name of Khirbet Budrus. An official Ottoman village list from about the same year, 1870, showed that ''Ebdus'' had a total of 28 houses and a population of 93, though the population count included only men. It also noted that it was located by

and

. In 1882, PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' described Budrus as "a small village, with olive-groves and cisterns. It has near it two sacred places ( maqams), and a graveyard near one (Imam 'Aly) on the west."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p
296
/ref>

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Budrus had a population of 334; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p
21
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 430 Muslims in a total of 98 houses.Mills, 1932, p
19
/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population was 510, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
29
/ref> while the total land area was 7,935 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 636 dunums were plantation or irrigated, 2,412 were allotted to cereals, while 19 dunams were built-up (urban) areas. File:Al-Haditha 1942.jpg, Budrus 1942 1:20,000 File:Beit Nabala 1945.jpg, Budrus 1945 1:250,000 File:Lydda and Ramla area - 9 July 1948.PNG, Depopulated villages in the Ramle Subdistrict

Jordanian era

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

1949 Armistice Agreements The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 776 inhabitants in Budrus.

1967-present

Since the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...

in 1967, Budrus has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 11.2% of Budrus’s land was classified as

Area B The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The enclaves are often compared to the nominally self-governing black ...

, the remaining 88.8% as Area C. Israel has confiscated land from Budrus for the construction of the

Israeli West Bank barrier The Israeli West Bank barrier, comprising the West Bank Wall and the West Bank fence, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. It is a contentious element of the Israeli–Palestinian ...

, surrounding the village to the north and west, cutting off many villagers from their land. Frequent protests against the wall have occurred since 2003. BUdrus school

A boy from the village, 16-year-old Samir Awad, was shot to death in February 2013 near the

, where he reportedly had gone with friends to throw stones at soldiers. According to an investigation by

B'tselem B'Tselem ( he, בצלם, , " in the image of od) is a Jerusalem-based non-profit organization whose stated goals are to document human rights violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, combat any denial of the existence of su ...

, he was shot while fleeing, once in the leg, and then further, while attempting to run away, once in the back and the head. A military investigation made a preliminary finding that the soldiers had fired in contravention of open-fire regulations. The house of his family was later subject to assault with concussion grenades, injuring several members, while another son, Abed, was arrested and taken to an unknown destination. In 2018, the Israeli prosecution decided not to charge the Israeli soldiers involved.Video Shows Israeli Soldiers Shooting to Death a Palestinian Teen as He Tries to Flee in 2013 Incident
Yotam Berger, June 7, 2018, Haaretz

Footnotes

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External links

Welcome To Budrus
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14
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Budrus Village (Fact Sheet)

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Budrus Village Profile
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Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Budrus Village
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