Aqabah
Sign in to saveAqabah (, and also called Al Aqabah, Aqaba, or Al Aqaba) is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, which is being targeted for demolition by the Israeli Civil Administration (the IDF agency responsible for controlling the West Bank) as the majority of structures were alleged to have been built without permits from the Israeli military administration. Surrounded by two Israeli military bases and a ‘virtual wall’ of checkpoints, Al-Aqaba's connections to neighboring communities, markets and the Jordan Valley have been gradually severed: since 1967, al-Aqaba's population has decreas
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Key facts
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- Al Aqabah
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- Arabic
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- Arabic
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- العقبة
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- Local Development Committee
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- Palestine
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- Location of Al Aqabah within Palestine
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- Aqabah in Area C of West Bank, under Israeli control.
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- State
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- State of Palestine
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- Governorate
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- Tubas
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- Founded
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- Local Development Committee
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- Head of Municipality
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- Haj Sami Sadeq
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Byzantine period
- Israeli occupation (1967- )
- Foreign investment and help
- Threats and Acts of Demolition
- High Court petition denied
- Response to High Court decision
- Demography
- Local origins
- See also
- References
- External links
- External links
Aqabah (, and also called Al Aqabah, Aqaba, or Al Aqaba) is a Palestinian village in the northeastern West Bank, which is being targeted for demolition by the Israeli Civil Administration (the IDF agency responsible for controlling the West Bank) as the majority of structures were alleged to have been built without permits from the Israeli military administration. Surrounded by two Israeli military bases and a ‘virtual wall’ of checkpoints, Al-Aqaba's connections to neighboring communities, markets and the Jordan Valley have been gradually severed: since 1967, al-Aqaba's population has decreased by 85%, dropping from around 2,000 to less than 200 today. While many al-Aqaba residents no longer live in the village itself, they still hope to return to their land, and still send their children to the local school.
Located in Area C of the West Bank on the edge of the Jordan Valley, the village is under complete Israeli military control and civil jurisdiction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aqabah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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