Hebron Governorate

The Hebron Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الخليل, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

Hebron Governorate
Governorate
2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements in the governorate
Coordinates: 31°30′N 35°06′E / 31.5°N 35.1°E / 31.5; 35.1
Country	Palestine
Area
• Total	1,060 km^2 (410 sq mi)
Population  (2017 Census)^[1]
• Total	711,223
	This figure excludes the Israeli West Bank Settlements

The governorate's land area is 1,060 square kilometres (410 sq mi) and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510. This makes the Hebron Governorate the largest of 16 governorates in both population and land area in the Palestinian territories.^[2] The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate. The governor is Hussein al-Araj and its district commander is Abdel Fattah al-Ju’eidi.^[3]

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.^[4]

Localities

The Hebron Governorate has a total of seven cities and eighteen towns. The governorate also contains more than 100 Bedouin villages and settlements that are not listed below.^[2]

Cities

• Dura
• Halhul
• Hebron (capital)
• Yatta
• ad-Dhahiriya

Municipalities

The following localities have municipality status from the Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority.

Bani Na'im Beit 'Awwa Beit Ula Beit Ummar Deir Sammit Idhna Kharas

Nuba Sa'ir as-Samu Surif Tarqumiya Taffuh

Village councils

The following have populations over 1,000 persons.

Al Baqa Beit 'Amra Beit Einun Beit Kahil Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa al-Burj Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa ad-Duwwara Hadab al-Fawwar al-Heila Hureiz Imreish Karma al-Karmil Khalet al-Maiyya Khursa Ruq'a

al-Kum Khirbet Safa Khirbat al-Simia Kuseis al-Majd Qalqas Qila al-Ramadien ar-Rihiya ash-Shuyukh Shuyukh al-Arrub as-Sura at-Tabaqa al-Uddeisa Zif

Refugee camps

• al-Arroub
• al-Fawwar

See also

• Governorates of Palestine

References

1. "Main Indicators by Type of Locality - Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Retrieved 2021-01-19.
2. Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 2, page 59,60. PCBS, November 2010
4. B'Tselem information sheet July 1989. p.4. pdf

External links

• Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 3 (2011)