Huwara

Infobox Palestinian Authority muni
name=Huwara


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latd=32|latm=09|lats=08.71|latNS=N
longd=35|longm=15|longs=23.74|longEW=E
population=5,800
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Huwara ( _ar. حُوّاره, "Huwâra") is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the northern West Bank, convert|9|km|mi|0 south of Nablus and forms an enclave between four Israeli settlements. [cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011224/friedman |title=And Darkness Covered the Land |first=Robert I. |last=Friedman |publisher=The Nation |date=2001-12-06 |accessdate=2007-09-13] It is approximately convert|4|mi|km|0 from Jacob's Well.cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pJ8WRKtVV08C&dq=Tent+and+Testament:+A+Camping+Tour+in+Palestine&pg=PA1&ots=VXzkKov-2y&sig=5mzUOeJ6OD5ziDfw8sefvmfsy4A&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DTent%2Band%2BTestament%253A%2BA%2BCamping%2BTour%2Bin%2BPalestine%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1
title=Tent and Testament: A Camping Tour in Palestine |first=Herbert |last=Rix |pages=25 |year=1907 |publisher=Scribner |location=New York, London] As part of the West Bank Closures system, the town contains the main Israel Defense Forces checkpoint to enter the nearby city of Nablus. [cite book
title=Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement |first=Josie |last=Sandercock |coauthors=et al. |pages=110 |year=2004 |publisher=Verso |isbn=1844675017] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,800 in 2006. [cite web |url=http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop06.aspx |title=Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 |publisher=Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics |accessdate=2007-10-06]

In 1853 Huwara was engaged in a battle with the neighboring villages of Quza and Beita which left ten men and seven women dead. [cite book |title=The Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land-settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948 |first=Arieh L. |last=Avneri |pages=20 |year=1984 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=0878559647]

The first Elementary school was established in 1947, the school was converted in to secondary school in 1962, the first female elementary school was established in 1957. Howwarah Elementary as well as secondary schools serves infants from neighboring villages up to the present time.Howwarah contains four major clans. The main clan is the Odeh clan; Which contains many families including the Mohammad, the Shaaweet , the Shhada, and Sleem. The second major clan is Ethmedeh.

ee also

*Hussam Abdo
*Huwwara Checkpoint

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