Fara'ata

Fara'ata (Arabic: فرعتا‎) was a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate in the Western area of the West Bank, located 16 kilometers Southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of approximately 657 inhabitants in 2006.[3]

Fara'ata
Local Development Committee
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicفرعتا
 • LatinFar'ata (unofficial)
Fara'ata
Fara'ata
Location of Fara'ata within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′26″N 35°09′57″E
Palestine grid165/177
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateQalqilya
Government
 • TypeLocal Development Committee
Elevation432−518 m (−1,267 ft)
Population
 (2006)
 • Total657
Name meaningFerata, p.n.[2]

In 2012 Fara'ata was merged with the larger Immatain village council.[1]

Location

Immatin and Far’ata are located 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Qalqiliya. They are bordered by Tell to the east, Deir Istiya to the south, Jinsafut, Al Funduq and Hajjah to the west, and Kafr Qaddum and Jit to the north.[1]

History

Byzantine ceramics have been found in the village.[4]

Ottoman era

Fara'ata was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as Fara'ta, being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 households and 6 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 4,500 Akçe.[5]

In 1838, Fer'ata was noted as located in Jurat Merda, south of Nablus.[6]

In 1870 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited Fara'ata, which he described having "a very small number" of people, with some cisterns and remains of a stone sarcophagus as remnants of former history.[7]

In the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) (1882), Fara'ata was described as a "small village of ancient appearance, standing on a [..] mound, with a rock-cut tomb to the south, and a sacred Mukam to the east." Fara'ata was noted in the Samaritan Chronicle (from the 12th century) under the name of Ophrah, while it has been known under its present name since the 14th century.[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Far'ata had a population of 36, all Muslim,[9] increasing in the 1931 census to of 47 Muslims, in a total of 11 houses.[10]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Far'ata was 70 Muslims,[11] while the total land area was 1,664 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 56 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 961 for cereals,[13] while 10 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[14]

Jordanian era
"No more administrative orders." Graffiti spray-painted in Hebrew by Israeli settlers on a car in Fara'ata, 2018

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 317 inhabitants in Fara'ata.[15]

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Fara'ata has been held under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 58.3% of the total village land of Immatain/Fara'ata was assigned as Area B land, while the remaining 41.7% is Area C land.[16]

In 2010, Far'ata was described by Gideon Levy as one of the Palestinian villages where the people "live in terror of the settlers and their accursed 'Price tag,' and nobody came to their defense".[17]

References
  1. Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality), ARIJ, p. 4
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 182
  3. Projected Mid -Year Population for Qalqiliya Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 801
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
  6. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  7. Guérin, 1875, pp. 179 -180, cited in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 185
  8. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. 162-163
  9. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
  10. Mills, 1932, p. 61
  11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156
  15. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  16. Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality), ARIJ, p. 16
  17. Twilight Zone / The mountain that was as a monster, Gideon Levy, May 20, 2010, Haaretz

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