Ash-Shuyukh
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Ash-Shuyukh or al-Shuyukh is a Palestinian
town in the Hebron Governorate
located 6km northeast of the city of Hebron
. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
, Ash-Shuyukh had a population of over 8,811 in 2007.
Like the rest of the Hebron area
, ash-Shuyukh is an agricultural area. Primary crops include olives, figs, almonds, lentils, peaches and apricots. Olive groves cover 980 dunam
s while grains and pulses cover 680 dunams. There are about 2,000 sheep and goats in the town raised as livestock.
The first school was established in 1940 by Mohammed Mahmoud Eid. Another school was built in 2002 and named in honor of a resident killed during the al-Aqsa Intifada
.
Palestinian territories
The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...
town in the Hebron Governorate
Hebron Governorate
The Hebron Governorate is an administrative district of the Palestinian National Authority in the southern West Bank. It extends south to, and includes most of, the Dead Sea....
located 6km northeast of the city of Hebron
Hebron
Hebron , is located in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 165,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter...
. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is the statistical organization under the umbrella of the Palestinian Cabinet of the Palestinian National Authority....
, Ash-Shuyukh had a population of over 8,811 in 2007.
Like the rest of the Hebron area
Judea
Judea or Judæa was the name of the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel from the 8th century BCE to the 2nd century CE, when Roman Judea was renamed Syria Palaestina following the Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt.-Etymology:The...
, ash-Shuyukh is an agricultural area. Primary crops include olives, figs, almonds, lentils, peaches and apricots. Olive groves cover 980 dunam
Dunam
A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum, dynym, dulum was a non-SI unit of land area used in the Ottoman Empire and representing the amount of land that can be plowed in a day; its value varied from 900–2500 m²...
s while grains and pulses cover 680 dunams. There are about 2,000 sheep and goats in the town raised as livestock.
The first school was established in 1940 by Mohammed Mahmoud Eid. Another school was built in 2002 and named in honor of a resident killed during the al-Aqsa Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada and the Oslo War, was the second Palestinian uprising, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000...
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