Shuqba

Location

Shuqba is located 17,9 km northwest of Ramallah. It bordered by Deir abu Mash'al and Al-Itihad to the east, and Ni'lin, Qibya and Shabtin to the south.

To the west is the Green line, and to the north is 'Abud, Rantis, and Israeli settlement of Ofarim.

History

Main article: Shuqba Cave

Dorothy Garrod studied the transition of Mesolithic to Neolithic culture represented in the Shuqba Cave on the northern bank of Wadi an-Natuf near Shuqba in 1928. The name "Natufian Culture" was then coined to describe the inhabitants of the southern Levant at this crucial juncture in human history.

Sherds from Iron Age I-II, Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman Empire, Byzantine and Mamluk eras have been found.

Ottoman era

Sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here.

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted that the houses of Kharbet Choukba were very roughly built; and that the village contained about two hundred inhabitants. Under the name Schakba, an Ottoman village list of about the same year, 1870, found 39 houses and a population of 141, though the population count included only men. It was noted that it was located north of Deir Qaddis, and having Bayt Nabala to the west.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A small village on high ground, surrounded with trees."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Shuqba had a population of 530 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 696, still all Muslims, in a total of 130 houses.

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 840, all Muslims, while the total land area was 15,013 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,496 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 5,053 for cereals, while 16 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.

File:Qibya 1944.jpg|Shuqba 1944 1:20,000 File:Deir Abu Mash'al 1945.jpg|Shuqba 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Shuqba came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.

In 1961, the population of Shuqba was 1,241 persons.

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Shuqba has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 885, of whom 54 originated from the Israeli territory.

After the 1995 accords, 8.4% of Shuqba’s land was classified as Area B, and the remaining 91.6% as Area C. The Israeli West Bank barrier is partly built on village land, isolating 1,352 dunums (10%) of the village on the west side of the wall. Israel has also confiscated village land for bypass roads, military checkpoints, and for the construction of an Israeli stone crusher. The extracted stone material is transferred to Israel, in breach of international law.

References

Bibliography

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3. [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Shuqba_vp_en.pdf Shuqba village profile], ARIJ, p. 4
4. [http://poica.org/2006/03/the-israeli-fever-of-house-demolition-continues-in-shuqba-village/ The Israeli fever of house demolition continues in Shuqba village] Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2006-03-02
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7. In 1596 Shuqba was a part of the ''[[nahiya]]'' ("subdistrict") of [[Ramla]], which was under the administration [[Gaza Sanjak]]. In the [[Defter
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21. [http://poica.org/2016/01/israeli-stone-quarries-and-crushers-are-founded-on-palestinian-private-lands-and-do-continuously-expand/ Israeli stone quarries and crushers are founded on Palestinian private lands and do continuously expand] January 8, 2016, POICA