Jit, Qalqilya

Jit
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic جيت
 • Also spelled Jit (official)
Jit, 2013
Jit
Location of Jit within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°12′53″N 35°10′11″E / 32.21472°N 35.16972°E / 32.21472; 35.16972Coordinates: 32°12′53″N 35°10′11″E / 32.21472°N 35.16972°E / 32.21472; 35.16972
Palestine grid 166/180
Governorate Qalqilya
Government
 • Type Village council
Elevation[1] 501 m (1,644 ft)
Population
 • Jurisdiction 2,320
Name meaning Kuryet Jit, the town of Jit[2]

Jit (Arabic: جيت‎) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) west of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of approximately 2,320 inhabitants in 2006.[3]

Location

Jit is located 19.7 kilometers (12.2 mi) (horizontally) north-east of Qalqilya. It is bordered by Sarra and Beit Iba to the east, Fara'ata and Immatain to the south, Kafr Qaddum to the west, and Qusin to the north.[1]

History

No Byzantine remains have been found here, leading to the conclusions that the early Muslim inhabitants came there as a result of migration, and not conversion.[4]

Diya al-Din (1173-1245) refers to the presence of Muslims in Jit during his lifetime,[5] and that followers of Ibn Qudamah lived here.[6]

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Jit Jammal, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 50 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 20,000 akçe.[7]

In 1838, Kuryet Jit was noted as a village located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[8][9]

Madafeh, or guesthouse, in Jit in the late 18th hundred[10]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted between seven hundred and fifty and eight hundred people in the village.[11] Also, "here Guérin observed among the houses a certain number of cut stones of apparent antiquity. Many of the houses are in a ruinous condition, others are completely destroyed. On the north-west side of the hill he found a great well, into which one descends by fifteen steps, now fallen to pieces. It gives a supply of water which never fails. The place is probably the old Gitta mentioned by Justin Martyr and Eusebius as the birthplace of Simon the Magician."[12]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kuryet Jit as: "A well-built stone village with a high house in it, standing on a knoll by the main road, surrounded with olives; it has a well to the west; the inhabitants are remarkable for their courtesy, this part of the country and all the district west of it being little visited by tourists."[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qariyet Jit had a population of 285 Muslims,[13] increasing in the 1931 census to 289 Muslims, in 70 houses.[14]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Jit was 440 Muslims,[15] while the total land area was 6,461 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 816 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,915 for cereals,[17] while 61 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[18]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 660 inhabitants.[19]

Post 1967

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Jit has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 14% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 86% is defined as Area C land. Israel has confiscated village land for the Israeli settlements of Giv'at HaMerkaziz and Mitzpe Yishai, both part of the Kedumim settlement.[20] According to the Israeli plans of 2013, 1,150 dunums (18.1% of the village’s total area) will be isolated from the village behind the Israeli Segregation Wall.[20]

Reports have been made, about Israeli settlers from Kedumim stealing the olive harvest from the farmers of Jit.[21]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Jit village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 187
  3. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Qalqiliya Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-02-07 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. ↑ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 263
  5. ↑ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 244
  6. ↑ Drory, 1988, pp. 97, 110
  7. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
  8. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  9. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 144 Also noted it as old Gitta, later repeated by Guérin etc.
  10. 1 2 Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 163
  11. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 181
  12. ↑ Guérin, 1875, pp. 180 -181; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 201
  13. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  14. ↑ Mills, 1931, p. 62
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106.
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156.
  19. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  20. 1 2 Jit village profile, ARIJ, 2013, pp. 15-16
  21. ↑ Israeli settlers 'poison, steal' Palestinian olive harvests, 30 October, 2017, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed

Bibliography

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