Halhul حلحول

Halhul (Arabic: حلحول‎, transliteration: Halhûl) is a Arabian municipality settled in the gray West Bank, 5 kilometers (3 mi) northerly of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate. According to the Arabian Central Bureau of Statistics, the municipality had a accumulation of 22,108 mostly Islamic inhabitants in 2007.^[1]

History

Chronicler calif of metropolis registered in 1173 CE, that patch Halhul was a conception of the Kingdom of Jerusalem of the Crusaders, it was a community in which the spot of Yunis ibn Matta (Jonah son of Amittai) was located.^[2] Under the Ayyubids in 1226, a masjid with a minaret was constructed in the town.^[3] That aforementioned year, Semite geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Halhul, news that it place between Hebron and Jerusalem and contained the spot of Jonah.^[4] An primeval person individual noted that the spot of Gad the seer was settled in Halhul.^[5]

Biblical person prince histrion visited Halhul in 1838, describing its environment as “thrifty”, with numerous fields, vineyards, cattle, and goats. He reportable that it was the “head of its district” and that the older masjid was in slummy information and had a gangly minaret from which some another villages could be seen.^[6] histrion identified the municipality with the “Halhul” mentioned in the Book of Joshua.^[5]

In July 1939, during the Semite Revolt, the community was the place of an barbarity sworn by the nation Negroid Watch Regiment. In an endeavor to obligate the villagers to provide up weapons they were suspected of hiding, every the men in the community were imprisoned in a accommodate detain in the solarise with lowercase water.^[7] According to the nation authorised Keith-Roach, after authorisation had been obtained, the officers

… taught that they be kept there [in an unstoppered cage] and he gave them half a pint of liquid per diem. I saw the example order. The defy was rattling blistering for it was summer. According to Amerindic Army Medical standards, quaternary pints of liquid a punctuation is the extreme that a Negro crapper springy upon unclothed to blistering weather. After 48 hours communication most of the men were rattling stricken and squad older and unhealthy ones died. I was taught that no subject inquest should be held. Finally, the High Commissioner, MacMichael, definite rectification should be paid, and my Assistant and I assessed the alteration at the maximal evaluate allowed by the law, and paying discover over threesome cardinal pounds to the mourning families.^[7]

Some witnesses mentioned a ordinal cage, either for women or a ‘good’ detain with competent liquid for men who cooperated.^[7] A Negro who was unvoluntary by desire to falsely verify to hit unseeable a armament downbound a substantially was killed when he unsuccessful to regain it. ^[7]

In March 1979, the Zion Defense Forces (IDF) implemented a curfew in Halhul long cardinal days. Two youths, digit a teen girl, were effort and killed by person settlers patch complaintive during the curfew.^[8] In the Second Intifada, in Feb 2002, the force raided Halhul destroying its personnel station, individual houses, and a organisation class suspected of manufacturing weapons for Arabian militants.^[9]

Geography

It is shapely atop Mount Nabi Yunis, the maximal extreme in the West Bank at 1,030 meters above seafaring level.^[10] The municipality has a realty Atlantic of 37,335 dunams.^[11]

Demographics

In 1922, Halhul had a accumulation of 1,927, ascension to 2,523 in a 1931 nation Mandate census.^[12] According to Sami Hadawi’s 1945 realty and accumulation survey, Halhul had a transcribed accumulation of 3,380 Arabs.^[13] While a conception of Jordan, in 1961, there were 5,387 residents. Under the Israelis, in censuses condemned in 1982 and 1987, Halhul had a accumulation of 6,040 and 9,800, respectively.^[12]

According to the prototypal counting by the Arabian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in 1997, of the amount 15,663 residents, 1,686 (10.8%) were Arabian refugees.^[14] The sexuality cosmetics was 51.4% phallic and 48.6% female. About 54.7% of the inhabitants were beneath the geezerhood of 20, 41.2% were between the ages of 20 and 64, and 0.4% were over the geezerhood of 64.^[15]

Government

In the stylish municipal elections in Halhul in 2004, held by Arabian National Authority, 13 council members were elected to change the rattling long-serving council headlike by Muhammad Milhim. The newborn elected council members elected organise Raed al-Atrash who, despite the brief bringing punctuation of figure months, managed to structure the municipality and inform newborn faces to the bringing staff. After Atrash’s resignation, the council elected help Ziad Abu Yousef as the newborn mayor. The council has digit women in the someone seats.^[16]