Jump to content

Madama, Nablus

Coordinates: 32°11′00″N 35°14′10″E / 32.18333°N 35.23611°E / 32.18333; 35.23611
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madama, Nablus
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicمادما
Madama
Madama
Madama, Nablus is located in State of Palestine
Madama, Nablus
Madama, Nablus
Location of Madama, Nablus within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′00″N 35°14′10″E / 32.18333°N 35.23611°E / 32.18333; 35.23611
Palestine grid171/176
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateNablus
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total2,092
Name meaningfrom personal name[2]

Madama is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate.

Location

[edit]

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]

History

[edit]

Ottoman era

[edit]

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]

British Mandate era

[edit]

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]

Jordanian era

[edit]

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]

Post-1967

[edit]

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]

Settler violence

[edit]

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]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 187
  3. ^ Madama Village Profile, p. 4
  4. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 131
  5. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 253.
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 163
  7. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  8. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 62
  9. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  10. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
  11. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107
  12. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157
  13. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  14. ^ Madama Village Profile, p. 16
  15. ^ Pearce, Fred (1 March 2006). "Running on empty". The Guardian.
  16. ^ Palestinian shepherd suffers head wound in attack by Israelis in West Bank, Yotam Berger, May 27, 2017, Haaretz
  17. ^ Israeli soldiers filmed cheering after shooting unarmed Palestinian with rubber bullets, 25 April 2018 The Independent
  18. ^ Israeli settlers raze Palestinian lands for settler-only road, May 6, 2019, Ma'an News Agency
  19. ^ Settlers Storm Madama Village, September 5, 2019

Bibliography

[edit]
[edit]