Budrus () is a

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

Ramallah Ramallah ( , ; ) is a Palestinians, Palestinian city in the central West Bank, that serves as the administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of abov ...

in the northern

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. According to the

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(PCBS), the village had a population of 1,596 inhabitants in 2017.

Location

Budrus is located north-west of

. It is bordered by

Qibya Qibya () 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 Bureau of Sta ...

and

Ni'lin Ni'lin () is a Palestinian people, Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank, located west of Ramallah. Ni'lin is about east of the 1949 Armistice Line (Green Line) bordered b ...

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 Under the name of Patris (or Patros), Budrus was mentioned in the Jewish

Tosefta The Tosefta ( "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the '' Tannaim''. Background Jewish teachings of the Tannaitic period were cha ...

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

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, at the entrance of the King's Mountains.Conder and Conder, 1880, p
307
/ref> The same passage mentions a local

fair A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. Fairs are typically temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks. Fairs showcase a wide range of go ...

held at the village in Talmudic times. Archeological remains from the

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and the

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eras have been found.

Ottoman era

In 1596, Budrus appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the ''

Nahiya A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, 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 divisi ...

'' of Ramla of the '' Liwa'' of Gaza. It had a population of 46

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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 The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (anglicized as ''akche'', ''akcheh'' or ''aqcha''; ; , , in Europe known as '' asper'') was a silver coin mainly known for being the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. It was also used in other states includi ...

. 7/24 of the revenue went to a

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. 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,

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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'' described Budrus as "a small village, with olive-groves and

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s. It has near it two sacred places (

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s), 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 The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...

conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Budrus had a population of 334; all

s,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

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s, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 636 dunums were plantation or irrigated, 2,412 were allotted to

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s, 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 The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...

, 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, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states, primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 5 to 10June ...

in 1967, Budrus has been under

Israeli occupation Israel has occupied the Golan Heights of Syria and the Palestinian territories since the Six-Day War of 1967. It has previously occupied the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and southern Lebanon as well. Prior to 1967, control of the Palestinian terr ...

. After the 1995 accords, 11.2% of Budrus’s land was classified as Area B, the remaining 88.8% as Area C. Israel has confiscated land from Budrus for the construction of the

Israeli West Bank barrier The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line (Israel), Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as a necessary securi ...

, 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, 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,

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Footnotes

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External links

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

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