Kafr Laqif () is a

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village in the

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in the western

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, located 22 kilometers southwest of

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. According to the

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, the village had a population of 1,039 inhabitants in 2017.

Location

Kafr Laqif is located (horizontally) east of

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. It is bordered by Hajja to the east, Wadi Qana to the south, ‘

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to the west, and Khirbet Sir and

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to the north.

History

Byzantine-period ceramics have been found there.Dauphin (1998), p. 801.

Ottoman period

Kafr Laqif, like all of

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, was incorporated into the

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in 1517, and in the 1596 tax registers it was part of the ''

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'' ("subdistrict") of ''Bani Sa'b'', itself part of the larger

Sanjak of Nablus The Nablus Sanjak (; ) was an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule in the Levant (1517–1917). It was administratively part of the Damascus Eyalet until 1864 when it became part of Syria Vilayet and then the Beirut Vilaye ...

. It had a population of 15 households, all

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s. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 10,740

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. 37.5% of the revenue went to a Muslim charitable endowment. In 1838,

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noted ''Kefr Lakif'' as a Muslim village in the ''Beni Sa'ab'' district, west of Nablus. In 1870/71 ( AH 1288), an Ottoman census listed the village in the ''

'' (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b. In 1882, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''Kefr Lekif'' as resembling Kafr Jammal, that is: "a small stone village on a knoll, with

cisterns A cistern (; , ; ) is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. To prevent leakage, the interior of the cistern is often lined with hydraulic plaster. Cisterns are disti ...

British Mandate

In the

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conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Kufr Laqef'' had a population of 95

s,Barron (1923), Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p.
25
increasing in the 1931 census to 141 Muslims, in 27 houses. In the 1945 statistics the population of Kafr Laqif was 210 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
18
while the total land area was 2,854

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, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 477 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 840 for cereals, while 19 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas. File:Azzun 1943.jpg, Kafr Laqif 1943 1:20,000 File:Azzun 1945.jpg, Kafr Laqif 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian period

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 304 inhabitants.

Post 1967

During 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, Kafr Laqif came 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, 28.2% of village land is classified as Area B land, while the remaining 71.8% is classified as Area C land. The Israelis have expropriated land in Kafr Laqif for its settlements, most notably Karne Shomron and its environs. In addition, according to the plans, (as of 2007) 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 ...

will isolate 657 dunums (22.8% of the village's total area) on the western Israeli side of the wall.ARIJ (2013)
Kafr Laqif Village Profile
pp. 17-18.

References

Bibliography

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External links

*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:
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Kafr Laqif Village (Fact Sheet)

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