'Arab al-Rashayida
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicعرب الرشايدة
 • Latinal Rashaydeh (official)
'Arab al-Rashayida is located in State of Palestine
'Arab al-Rashayida
'Arab al-Rashayida
Location of 'Arab al-Rashayida within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°34′14″N 35°13′58″E / 31.57056°N 35.23278°E / 31.57056; 35.23278
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateBethlehem
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total2,060

'Arab al-Rashayida (Arabic: عرب الرشايدة) is a Palestinian village in the Bethlehem Governorate, central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the city had a population of 2,060 in 2017.[1]

History

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Rashayida came under Jordanian rule.

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the village has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 5.7% of al-Rashayida's land was classified as Area A, 1.1% classified as Area B, 10.2% classified as Area C, while the remaining 83% is classified as "nature reserve".[2]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ 'Arab ar Rashaiyda Village profile, ARIJ, p. 16


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