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Jurat ash-Sham'a
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
• Latin	Jourah al-Sham'a (official)
Jurat ash-Sham'aLocation of Jurat ash-Sham'a within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°38′57.03″N 35°10′06.54″E / 31.6491750°N 35.1684833°E / 31.6491750; 35.1684833
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Bethlehem
Government
• Type	Village council
Population
• Total	1,778

Jurat ash-Sham'a is a Palestinian village located ten kilometers south of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,778 in 2017. The primary healthcare is obtained in Beit Fajjar where the Ministry of Heath have classified the care facilities as level 3.

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the town has been held under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 263.

References

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. "West Bank Healthcare" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2006-03-13. Retrieved 2016-05-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

External links

• Jurat ash Sham'a village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ
• Jurat ash Sham'a village profile, ARIJ
• Juret Ash Sham'a aerial photo, ARIJ

v t e Bethlehem Governorate
Cities	Beit Jala Beit Sahour Bethlehem (Beit Lahm)
Municipalities	Battir Beit Fajjar al-Dawha Husan Jannatah (Rakhme, al-Asakra, Khallet al Karaneen, Al ‘Ukab, Harmala, and Abu Njeim) al-Khader Nahalin Tuqu' al-Ubeidiya Za'atara
Villages	'Arab al-Rashayida Artas Beit Ta'mir Dar Salah Hindaza Jab'a Jubbet ad-Dib Juhdum Jurat ash Sham'a Khallet al-Haddad Khallet al-Louza Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah Kisan al-Ma'sara al-Maniya Marah Ma'alla Marah Rabah Nuaman Umm Salamuna ash-Shawawra Wadi al-Arayis Wadi Fukin Wadi an-Nis Wadi Rahhal al-Walaja
Religion	Chapel of the Milk Grotto Chapel of the Shepherds' Field Church of Saint Catherine, Bethlehem Church of the Nativity Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem) St. George's Monastery, Al-Khader Al-Hamadiyya Mosque Monastery of Saint Theodosius Mar Saba Rachel's Tomb
Refugee camps	Aida 'Azza Dheisheh
Other	Solomon's Pools ‘Ayn Fashkhah

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