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 ...
town in the
Nablus Governorate
The Nablus Governorate ( ar, محافظة نابلس ') is an administrative district of Palestine located in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, 53 km north of Jerusalem. It covers the area around the city of Nablus which serves as the ...
of the
State of Palestine
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, 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
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statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures a ...
(PCBS), the town had a population of 2,491 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.
Location
Kafr Qallil is located 4.30 km south of Nablus. It is bordered by Nablus to the north and east, and by Burin to the south and west.
Roman
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and
Byzantine
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eras have been found here.Bull and Campbell, 1968, p. 35 In addition to ceramics, inscriptions dating to the Byzantine era have been found here. This place was mentioned in the Samaritan Chronicle,Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p 163 /ref> and was inhabited by the
Samaritans
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in the 7th century CE.
Pottery from the
Umayyad
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era has also been found here.
Ottoman era
Incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire
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in 1517 with the rest of
Palestine
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, in 1596 the village appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the ''
nahiya
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'' of Jabal Qubal, part of
Nablus Sanjak
The Nablus Sanjak ( ar, سنجق نابلس; tr, Nablus Sancağı) 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 o ...
. It had a population of 50 households and 11 bachelors, all Muslim. They 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 press for olive oil or syrup; a total of 15,000 akçe.
In 1838, ''Kefr Kullin'' was noted as a village on the side of
Mount Gerizim
Mount Gerizim (; Samaritan Hebrew: ''ʾĀ̊rgā̊rīzēm''; Hebrew: ''Har Gərīzīm''; ar, جَبَل جَرِزِيم ''Jabal Jarizīm'' or جَبَلُ ٱلطُّورِ ''Jabal at-Ṭūr'') is one of two mountains in the immediate vicinit ...
,Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 94 /ref> located in the District of ''Jurat 'Amra'', south of Nablus.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127 /ref>
In 1870,
Victor Guérin
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described it as being a village of two hundred inhabitants, separated by a valley in two districts, one northern and the other southern. A few gardens adjoined it.
In 1882, the
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's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
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'' described ''Kefr Kullin'' as "A small village at the foot of Gerizim, with a spring in it; it stands higher than the main road."
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, ''Kufr Qallil'' had a population of 298 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p 24 /ref> increasing at the time of the 1931 census to 332, still all Muslim, in 79 houses.Mills, 1932, p 63 /ref>
In the 1945 statistics, Kafr Qallil (including ''Khirbat Sarin'') had a population of 470, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 18 /ref> with 4,732 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 83 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,397 were used for cereals, while 39 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 749 inhabitants here.
1967, aftermath
Since the
Six-Day War
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in 1967, Kafr Qallil has been under
Israeli occupation
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.
After the 1995 Accords, 27% of the village land was classified as
Area A
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, the remaining 73% as Area C.
Israel has confiscated hundreds of dunams of land from the village. Some has been used for Israeli military checkpoints, and 15 dunams went to the Israeli settlement of
Har Brakha
Har Brakha ( he, הַר בְּרָכָה, ''lit.'' Mount fBlessing) is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of above sea level, in the West Bank's Samarian mountains, near the Palestinian city ...
Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
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