Ash-Shuhada

Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine

32°25′48″N 35°16′14″E / 32.43000°N 35.27056°E / 32.43000; 35.27056Palestine grid175/203State

State of PalestineGovernorateJeninGovernment

• TypeVillage councilPopulation

(2017)^[1]

• Total2,299

Ash-Shuhada (Arabic: مثلث الشهداء, martyrs' triangle) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, located 5 km southwest of the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,738 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,299 by 2017.^[1]^[2]

History

Just east of the modern village (at grid 1758/2041), large amounts of pottery sherds have been found, all dating to the Middle Bronze Age IIB.^[3]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Ash-Shuhada came under Jordanian rule.

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Ash-Shuhada has been under Israeli occupation.

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
^ Zertal, 2004, p. 135