Deir Ghazaleh

Deir Ghazaleh
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	دير غزالة
• Also spelled	Deir Ghazala (official) Dayr Ghazzalah (unofficial)
The village
Deir Ghazaleh Location of Deir Ghazaleh within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 32°29′46.89″N 35°21′01.88″E / 32.4963583°N 35.3505222°ECoordinates: 32°29′46.89″N 35°21′01.88″E / 32.4963583°N 35.3505222°E
Governorate	Jenin
Government
• Type	Local Development Committee
Area
• Jurisdiction	6,588 dunams (6.6 km^2 or 2.5 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	850
Name meaning	"Monastery of the gazelle"

Deir Ghazaleh (Arabic: دير غزالة‎) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, located nine kilometers northeast of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Deir Ghazaleh had a population of over 850 inhabitants in mid-year 2006,^[1] mostly Muslims with a large Christian minority.

Water sources

The main source of water is the large groundwater aquifer underlying the West Bank.^[2] A well on the outskirts of the village, called the Abu ´Ahed well, supplies water to the village and surrounding communities.^[3]

Education and culture

A library was established in Deir Ghazaleh under the auspices of the Program for the Social Empowerment of Rural Women.^[4] The Deir Ghazaleh Women’s club, established in 1997, offers training course and workshops for local women.^[5]

References

1. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
2. PMC - Permanent Issues - Water
3. Field Reports: Occupied Palestinian Territory, OPT: Water and Sanitation, Hygiene Monitoring Project - Summary Report # 8 (Jan, Feb, and Mar 2004)
4. PARC Agricultural Development Association
5. The Rural Women's Development Society

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 83, 115-116)
• Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4. (p. 783)
• Guérin, Victor (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 337)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 160)
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 160)

External links

• Welcome To Dayr Ghazzala
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons