'Aqqaba

Palestinian town in the northern West Bank yes 'Aqqaba Arabic Arabic عقّابة Latin al-Aqaba (official)Akkaba (unofficial) Municipality type C Palestine Location of 'Aqqaba within Palestine 32 21 03 N 35 20 59 E region:PS inline,title Palestine grid 183/195 State State of Palestine Governorate Tubas Founded Municipality dunam 8,239 2017 auto Name meaning the steep or mountain roadPalmer, 1881, p. 198 Aqqaba (ar عقّابة) is a Palestinian town located on a slope in the Jordan Valley in the northern West Bank, 15 kilometers northeast of Jenin in the Tubas Governorate of the State of Palestine. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 8,239 inhabitants in the 2017 census.https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics February 2018 May 19, 2023 66 History Pottery remains from the Persian, Hellenistic and Byzantine eras have been found here.Zertal, 2007, pp. 149-150 'Aqqaba is identified with Iqbin (he איקבין), mentioned in the 6th-7th century Mosaic of Reḥob as a Jewish settlement in the region of Sebastia inhabited mostly by non-Jews and, therefore, agricultural produce obtained from the area could be taken by Jews without the normal restrictions imposed during the Sabbatical years, or the need for tithing.Aaron Demsky, The Permitted Villages of Sebaste in the Reḥov Mosaic, Israel Exploration Journal (vol. 29, no. 3/4), Jerusalem 1979, p. 189. "איקבין is identified by Sussmann with the village 'Aqabah (map ref. 1830 1953)."Zertal Adam The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. Volume 2, The Eastern Valleys and the Fringes of the Desert 2007 Brill 978-90-474-2387-4 Adam Zertal Leiden 105 310354878 The identification with Iqbin (אקבין) of the “Permitted Villages” is supported by the location, geographical historical context and findings; and see discussion of site no. 84, Kh. el-‘Aqabah.Marom Roy Roy Marom Amitai-Preiss Nitzan Early Islamic Rural Administration and Toponymy in Kūrat Qaysārīyah: New Evidence of Umayyad Lead Bullae Israel Numismatic Research 25 2026 318 Ottoman era 'Aqqaba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the Nahiya of Jabal Sami of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 22 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 5,982 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 125 In 1870 Victor Guérin found the village to have 130 inhabitants, who had a mosque in the eastern part of the village.Guérin, 1874, p. 354 In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a good sized village on the northern slope of Ras el Akra. It is surrounded with brushwood on the hills, but has arable land below."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 227 British Mandate of Palestine In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Aqqaba had a population of 330; 322 Muslims and 8 ChristianBarron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24 Orthodox,Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47 increasing in the 1931 census to 411; 9 Christians and 403 Muslims, in a total of 89 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 59 In the 1945 statistics the population was 600; 20 Christians and 580 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18 with 8,068 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Of this, 1,259 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,284 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105 while 54 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155 Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, 'Aqqaba came under Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population had reached 1,164.Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 26 Post 1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, 'Aqqaba has been held under Israeli occupation. 'Aqqaba is made up of three main families: Abu Arra, Abu Ghannam and al-Masri. During clear weather, Haifa could be seen from the west on the Mediterranean Sea as well as the summit of Jabal ash-Sheikh in Lebanon, while from the east the mountains of Ajloun in Jordan are clearly seen day and night. 'Aqqaba is the highest point in the Tubas Governorate. 'Aqqaba lies five kilometers east the Arab American University. Gaza war Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war On 6 August 2024, four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on the village.6 August 2024 Surge in killings as Israel raids West Bank https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/8/6/israel-war-on-gaza-live-at-least-40-palestinians-killed-over-past-24-hours?update=3099413 Al Jazeera References 25em Bibliography Barron, J.B. Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 Government of Palestine 1923 Conder C.R. Claude Reignier Conder Kitchener H.H. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener 1882 https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology London Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund 2 First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics 1964 http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf Village Statistics, April, 1945 http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics 1945 Guérin V. Victor Guérin Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine https://archive.org/details/descriptionsam01gu 2: Samarie, pt. 1 1874 L'Imprimerie Nationale Paris fr Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html S. Hadawi Sami Hadawi 1970 Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center Hütteroth W.-D. Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth K. Abdulfattah Kamal Abdulfattah Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ 1977 Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 3-920405-41-2 Mills, E. Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas Government of Palestine Jerusalem 1932 Palmer E.H. Edward Henry Palmer 1881 https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund Zertal A. Adam Zertal https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFDJt_F0nvoC The Manasseh Hill Country Survey 2 Boston BRILL 2007 978-9004163690 External links Welcome To 'Aqqaba Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA https://web.archive.org/web/20150627154119/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8374 2015-06-27 , Wikimedia commons Aqqaba Village Profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ, February, 2006 Aqqaba (Fact Sheet), ARIJ, February, 2006 Category:Tubas Governorate Category:Towns in the West Bank Category:Municipalities of Palestine Category:Ancient Jewish settlements of Samaria