Jalud (Arabic: جاﻟﻭﺩ) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank. It is approximately 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Nablus and is situated just east of Qaryut, south of Qusra and northeast of Shilo, an Israeli settlement. Its land area consists of 16,517 dunams (square kilometers), 98 of which constitutes its built-up area.[3] Jalud is encircled by four illegal outposts: Esh Kodesh, Adi Ad, Ahiya and Shvut Rachel.[4] Jalud residents were blocked by both IDF forces and settlers from tending most of their farms from 2001 to 2007. In 2007 permission was given to farm their groves, twice a year for a few days, on condition that prior coordinating arrangements are made with the IDF.[4]
Jalud
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| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | جاﻟﻭﺩ |
Jalud
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| Coordinates: 32°4′11″N 35°18′57″E / 32.06972°N 35.31583°E / 32.06972; 35.31583 | |
| Palestine grid | 179/164 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Abdullah Tawfiq |
| Area | |
| • Total | 16,517 dunams (16.5 km2 or 6.4 sq mi) |
| Population
(2017)[1]
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| • Total | 743 |
| • Density | 45/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | from personal name[2] |
Jalud is located 17 kilometers (11 mi) south of Nablus (distance from the center of the village to the city center of Nablus). It is bordered by Duma to the east, Qusra and Talfit to the north, As Sawiya and Qaryut to the west, and Turmus Ayya to the south.[5]
Potsherds from Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Byzantine, Umayyad, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found here.[6]
Jalud may be identical to "Galuda of Aqraba", a place mentioned in a Jewish marriage certificate of "Elijah, son of Simeon", which was discovered in a cave at Wadi Murabba'at and is dated to 123 CE.[7][8] There's a possibility that merchants from this village had a court in Lod.[9][10]
Clermont-Ganneau noted several rock-hewn tombs SSW of the village. One he excavated had three arcosolia, and a fully working stone door.[11]
In 1596, Jalud appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the liwaofNablus. It had a population of 20 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives; a total of 22,070 akçe. All of the revenues went to a waqf.[12] Potsherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.[6]
In 1838 Jalud was counted as a Muslim village in the subdistrict of el-Beitawi, east of Nablus.[13]
In 1870 French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he found to have about 300 inhabitants.[14] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine, (SWP), described Jalud as "a small village on low ground, with olives to the south".[15]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jalud had a population of 145 Muslims,[16] increasing in the 1931 census to 225, still all Muslim, in 52 houses.[17]
In the 1945 statistics the population had increased to 300 Muslims,[18] while the total land area was 15,815 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[19] Of this, 457 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 6,838 for cereals,[20] while 24 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.[21]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jalud came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 290 inhabitants.[22]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jalud has been under Israeli occupation.
In 2017, Jalud's population was 743 according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).[1] There were 91 non-residential buildings, 94 houses and five business establishments in the village. The average household size was 5.5 persons.[23] According to Jalud's mayor, the village experiences high unemployment and migration due to land confiscation by Israel and sporadic violence from nearby Israeli settlements,[24] which for 10 years has impeded villagers' access to their groves.[25]
In her 2009 publication entitled Tree Flags, legal scholar and ethnographer Irus Braverman describes how Palestinians identify olive groves as "their symbol of their longtime agricultural connection to the land."[28]: 1 [29][30]
In April 2022, Haaretz reported that Jewish settlers from the nearby illegal outposts that encircle the town promoted attacks with firebombs in Jalud, torching cars and house yards, in what the Israeli newspaper classified as a "pogrom", "flaunt evil" and "settler terror".[31]
