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Jalud
Sign in to savethumb|School in Jalud Jalud () is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank. It is approximately south of Nablus and is situated just east of Qaryut, south of Qusra and northeast of Shilo, an Israeli settlement. Its land area consists of 16,517 dunams (square kilometers), 98 of which constitutes its built-up area. Jalud is encircled by four illegal outposts: Esh Kodesh, Adi Ad, Ahiya and Shvut Rachel. Jalud residents were blocked by both IDF forces and settlers from tending most of their farms from 2001 to 2007. In 2007 permission was given to farm their groves,
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Place details
- Locality
- جالود
- Region
- West Bank
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 459
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- Jordanian era
- Post-1967
- Israeli settler violence
- Olive groves
- Settler violence
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|School in Jalud Jalud () is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank. It is approximately south of Nablus and is situated just east of Qaryut, south of Qusra and northeast of Shilo, an Israeli settlement. Its land area consists of 16,517 dunams (square kilometers), 98 of which constitutes its built-up area. Jalud is encircled by four illegal outposts: Esh Kodesh, Adi Ad, Ahiya and Shvut Rachel. Jalud residents were blocked by both IDF forces and settlers from tending most of their farms from 2001 to 2007. In 2007 permission was given to farm their groves, twice a year for a few days, on condition that prior coordinating arrangements are made with the IDF.
==Location== Jalud is located south of Nablus (distance from the center of the village to the city center of Nablus). It is bordered by Duma to the east, Qusra and Talfit to the north, As Sawiya and Qaryut to the west, and Turmus Ayya to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jalud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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