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Deir Jarir

Deir Jarir (Arabic: دير جرير) is a Palestinian agricultural town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located twelve kilometers (7.5 miles) northeast of Ramallah. It is situated on a hilltop overlooking the Jordan Valley at an elevation of 900 metres (3,000 feet).[4] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Deir Jarir had a population of 4,469 inhabitants in 2017.[2]

Deir Jarir

دير جرير

178/152

33,357 dunams (33.357 km2 or 12.879 sq mi)

33,400 dunams (33.4 km2 or 12.9 sq mi)

698 m (2,290 ft)

4,469

130/km2 (350/sq mi)

The monastery or house of Jerir[3]

It spreads along a large land area of 33,357 dunams (33.357 km2), of which 17.2% is under the civil jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), while the remainder is under Israeli military control. Most of the land administered by the PNA is the city's built-up area and most of Deir Jarir's cultivated lands are grown with grape vines and fig and olive trees. Open-spaces make-up 76% of the town's area.[4]

Location[edit]

Deir Jarir is located 12.2 kilometers (7.6 mi) northeast of Ramallah. It is bordered by Al Auja to the east, Kafr Malik and Al Mazra'a ash Sharqiya to the north, Silwad to the west, and Et Taiyiba to the south.[1]

Name[edit]

The village name means "the monastery/house of Jerir", and is named, in the opinion of 19th-century orientalist E. H. Palmer, after the celebrated Arab poet Jarir.[3]

Israeli outpost built on private lands of Deir Jarir residents

Mitzpe Kramim

Welcome To Dayr Jarir

Welcome to Palestine

Deir Jarir

Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: , Wikimedia commons

IAA

Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)

Deir Jarir Village (Fact Sheet)

ARIJ

Deir Jarir Village Profile

ARIJ

Aerial photo

ARIJ

Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Deir Jarir Village

15, March, 2008, POICA

Deir Jarir & Silwad: Two Palestinian villages Hammered by the Israeli Occupation

24, September, 2011, POICA

Ufra Colonists Set Palestinian Fields Ablaze in Deir Jarir- Ramallah Governorate

February 2012, B'tselem

Under the guise of legality: Israel's Declaration of State Land in the West Bank