Yatta يطّا

Yatta or Yattah (Arabic: يطّا‎; Hebrew: יטה‎) is a Palestinian municipality settled in the Hebron Governorate on a broad roughly 8 km southward of the municipality of Hebron in the West Bank.^[1] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics it had a accumulation of 48,672 in 2007.

History

Yatta is settled on the place of the Biblical municipality of Juttah.^[1] Yatta is believed to be bag to the al-Makhamrah clan, who stop a practice of originating from digit of the example Jewish tribes of Arabia. They hit been visited by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in visit to communicate most the veracity of the claims. It has been institute that during digit of the season life the clan goes to a concern on the outskirts of the community and lights candles (as is usual in Hanukka). They also chorus from intake camel meat, which is proscribed to Jews.^{[citation needed]}

In 1596 it was transcribed as having a accumulation of 127 Islamic families, and paying taxes on wheat, barley, olives, goats and bee-hives.^[4]

Seven Palestinians were killed in Yatta during the Second Intifada in assorted incidents from 2002-04.^[5]