Madama, Nablus | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | مادما |
Location of Madama, Nablus within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°11′00″N 35°14′10″E / 32.18333°N 35.23611°E | |
Palestine grid | 171/176 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Nablus |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
Population (2017)
[1] | |
• Total | 2,092 |
Name meaning | from personal name [2] |
Madama is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate.
Madama is located 4.78 kilometres (3 mi) south of Nablus. It is bordered by Burin to the east, Asira al-Qibliya to the west and south, and Tell and Iraq Burin to the north. [3]
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it was noted as Madama, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal, part of Nablus Sanjak. The population was 36 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, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,250 akçe. [4]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus. [5]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Madama as: "a small hamlet in a valley." [6]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Madama had a population of 170, all Muslims, [7] increasing in the 1931 census to 211, still all Muslims, in a total of 67 houses. [8]
In the 1945 statistics Madama had a population of 290 Muslims [9] and a total of 3,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. [10] Of this, 162 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,943 used for cereals, [11] while 30 dunams were built-up land. [12]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Madama came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 456 inhabitants in Madama. [13]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Madama has been under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 62 % of Madama land was defined as Area B, while the remaining 32% was defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated 139 dunams of land from Madama in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar. [14]
In 2006, an incident occurred in Madama in which neighbouring Israeli settlers both "poisoned the village's only well and shot at aid workers who came to clean it." [15]
In May 2017, Israeli settlers, apparently from Yitzhar, attacked a Palestinian shepherd from Madama. The Palestinian was "bleeding profusely", and was sent to a hospital in Nablus. The Israeli soldiers "fired in the air, dispersing the assailants", but none of the attackers were arrested. [16]
In April 2018, Israeli soldiers were filmed "cheering after shooting unarmed Palestinian with rubber bullets" by a roadblock by Madama. [17]
In May 2019, it was reported that Israeli settlers from Yitzhar had started razing and levelling Palestinian-owned agricultural lands in Madama, in order to make a settler-only road. [18]
In September 2019, settlers from Yitzhar stormed the southern part of Madama and set fire to olive trees. [19]