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Line 1: {{Infobox settlement \| name = ~~Immatain~~Immatin \| translit_lang1 = Arabic \| translit_lang1_type = [[Arabic script\|Arabic]] \| translit_lang1_info = ~~إماتين~~إمّاتين \| type = [[Village council (Palestinian Authority)\|Municipality type D (Village council)]] \| image_skyline = Birds eye view of Imatain.jpg \| image_caption = Viewpoint of ~~Immatain~~Immatin \| pushpin_map = Palestine \| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Immatain within [[State of Palestine\|Palestine]] \| image_map = \| map_caption = \| coordinates = {{coord\|32\|11\|31\|N\|35\|09\|27\|E\|region:PS\|display=inline,title}} \| grid_name = [[Palestine grid\|Palestine grid]] \| grid_position = 165/177 \| subdivision_type = State \| subdivision_name = [[State of Palestine]] \| subdivision_type1 = [[Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority\|Governorate]] \| subdivision_name1 = [[Qalqilya Governorate\|Qalqilya]] \| established_title = Founded \| established_date = 1250 (estimate) \| government_footnotes = <!-- for references: use <ref> tags --> \| government_type = [[Village council (Palestinian Authority)\|Village council]] \| leader_title = Head of Municipality \| leader_name = Haythem Sameer Sawan \| unit_pref = dunam \| area_footnotes = \| area_total_km2 = 10.0 \| area_total_dunam = 10000 \| elevation_footnotes = <ref name=ARIJp4>[http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/immatin_vp_en.pdf Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality)], ARIJ, p. 4</ref> \| elevation_m = 432-518 \| elevation_min_m = \| elevation_max_m = \| population_footnotes = <ref name="PrelimCensus2017">{{cite report \|date=February 2018 \|title=Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 \|url=https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf \|department=[[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]] (PCBS) \|publisher=[[State of Palestine]] \|pages=64–82 \|access-date=2023-10-24}}</ref> ~~\| population_footnotes =~~ \| population_total = ~~2,450~~2755 \| population_as_of = ~~2006~~2017 \| population_note = \| population_density_km2 = auto \| blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning \| blank_info_sec1 = Amatin p.n.,<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/178/mode/1up 178]</ref> \| website = \| footnotes = }} '''Immatain''' ({{lang-ar\|<big> إماتين</big>}}) is a [[Palestinian territories\|Palestinian]] village located in the [[Qalqilya Governorate]] in the northwestern [[West Bank]], about seventeen kilometers southwest of [[Nablus]]. The current mayor of Immatain is Haythem Sawan.▼ ▲'''~~Immatain~~Immatin''' ({{~~lang-~~langx\|ar\|~~<big>~~ إماتين~~</big>~~}}) is a [[Palestinian territories\|Palestinian]] village located in the northwestern [[~~Qalqilya~~West ~~Governorate~~Bank]], in the ~~northwestern~~[[Qalqilya Governorate]] of the [[~~West~~State ~~Bank~~of Palestine]], about seventeen kilometers southwest of [[Nablus]]. The current mayor of ~~Immatain~~Immatin is Haythem Sawan. After 2012, the village of [[Farratin]] is included in Immatain.▼ ▲~~After~~Since 2012, the village of [[Farratin]] is included in ~~Immatain~~Immatin. ==Location== Immatin (including the Far’ata locality) is located {{convert\|19\|km\|mi\|sp=us}} west of [[Qalqiliya]]. It is bordered by [[Tell, Nablus\|Tell]] to the east, [[Deir Istiya]] to the south, [[Jinsafut]], [[Al Funduq]] and [[Hajjah, Qalqilya\|Hajja]] to the west, and [[Kafr Qaddum]] and [[Jit, Qalqilya\|Jit]] to the north.<ref name=ARIJp4/> ==History== [[Image:New mosque picture from Dar Alhaj Abu Kamal.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|The newly built mosque and minaret]] Immatin has been identified with the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)\|Israelite]] village of ''Elmatan'', which was mentioned in one of the [[Samaria Ostraca]].<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Millard \|first=Alan \| author-link =Alan Millard\|date=1995-11-01 \|title=The Knowledge of Writing in Iron Age Palestine \|journal=Tyndale Bulletin \|volume=46 \|issue=2 \|pages=208 \|doi=10.53751/001c.30407 \|s2cid=245870770 \|issn=2752-7042 \|quote=Sixteen of the twenty-seven place names can be identified with those of Arab villages existing in the past hundred years in the countryside around Samaria (such as Elmatan, 28.3, modern Ammatin, or Sepher, 16a, b.1, 2, 29.3, modern Saffarin)\|doi-access=free }}</ref>{{Failed verification\|date=November 2022}} [[Byzantine Empire\|Byzantine]] ceramics have been found in the village.<ref>Dauphin, 1998, p. 800</ref> ▼ ▲Ceramics dating from the [[Byzantine Empire\|Byzantine period]] ~~ceramics~~ have been found in the village.<ref>Dauphin, 1998, p. 800</ref> According to a tradition recalled by a [[Samaritan High Priest]] in the 20th century, two hundred [[Samaritans]] in Immatin were reportedly forced to convert to Islam by [[Saladin]]; however, written sources make no further reference to this event.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=קדר \|first=ב"ז \|title=ספר השומרונים \|publisher=יד יצחק בן-צבי; רשות העתיקות; המנהל האזרחי ליהודה ושומרון - קצין מטה לארכאולוגיה \|year=2006 \|isbn=965-217-202-2 \|editor-last=שטרן \|editor-first=אפרים \|edition=2 \|location=ירושלים \|pages=594 \|language=Hebrew \|trans-title=Book of the Samaritans \|chapter=השומרונים תחת השלטון הפרנקי \|trans-chapter=The Samaritans under Frankish rule \|editor-last2=אשל \|editor-first2=חנן}}</ref> ===Ottoman era=== ~~Immatain~~Immatin was incorporated into the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 ~~Immatain~~Immatin appeared in the [[daftar\|tax registers]] as ''Matin'', being in the ''[[Nahiya]]'' of Jabal Qubal of the ''[[Liwa (Arabic)\|Liwa]]'' of [[Sanjak of Nablus\|Nablus]]. It had a population of 20 households and 1 bachelor, all [[Muslim]]. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,.3% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives; a total of 3,000 [[~~Akçe~~akçe]].<ref name=Hutteroth136>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136</ref> In 1838, ''Amatin'' was noted as located in ''Jurat Amra'', south of Nablus.<ref name=Robinson127>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/127/mode/1up 127]</ref> In 1870/1871 (1288 [[Anno Hegirae\|AH]]), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 33 [[household]]s in the ''[[Nahiyah\|nahiya]]'' (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Grossman \|first=David \|title=Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine \|publisher=Magnes Press \|year=2004 \|location=Jerusalem \|pages=251}}</ref> In [[Palestine Exploration Fund\|PEF]]'s ''[[PEF Survey of Palestine\|Survey of Western Palestine]]'' (1882), Immatain was described as "a village of moderates size on the slope of the hill, with a few olives."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/162/mode/1up 162]</ref> ▼ ▲In 1882, the [[Palestine Exploration Fund\|PEF]]'s ''[[PEF Survey of Palestine\|Survey of Western Palestine]]'' ~~(1882), Immatain~~Immatin was described as "a village of moderates size on the slope of the hill, with a few olives."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/162/mode/1up 162]</ref> ===British Mandate era=== In the [[1922 census of Palestine]] conducted by the [[~~British~~ Mandate for Palestine ~~(legal instrument)~~\|British Mandate authorities]], ~~Immatain (called "Ammatain")~~ Immatin had a population of 234, all Muslim,<ref name="Census1922">Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n27/mode/1up 25]</ref> increasing in the [[1931 census of Palestine\|1931 census]] to 334 Muslims in 67 houses.<ref>Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 62]</ref> In the [[Village Statistics, 1945\|1945 statistics]] the population of Immatin was 440, all Muslims,<ref name=1945p18>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p18.jpg 18]</ref> while the total land area was 7,155 [[dunam]]s, according to an official land and population survey.<ref name=Hadawi60>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-060.jpg 60]</ref> Of this, 967 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,067 for cereals,<ref name=Hadawi106>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-106.jpg 106]</ref> while 32 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.<ref name="Palestine 1945. pg 156">Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-156.jpg 156]</ref> ▼ ==== Land ownership of ~~Immatain~~Immatin in 1945====▼ ▲In the [[Village Statistics, 1945\|1945 statistics]] the population of Immatin was 440, all Muslims,<ref name=1945p18>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p18.jpg 18]</ref> while the total land area was 7,155 [[dunam]]s, according to an official land and population survey.<ref name=Hadawi60>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-060.jpg 60]</ref> Of this, 967 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,067 for cereals,<ref name=Hadawi106>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-106.jpg 106]</ref> while 32 dunams were classified as built-up areas.<ref name="Palestine 1945. pg 156">Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-156.jpg 156]</ref> ▲==== Land ownership of Immatain in 1945==== The following is a breakdown of land ownership in 1945.<ref name=Hadawi60/><ref name=1945p18/> {\| class="wikitable" Line 87 ⟶ 96: \|} ==== Land usage of ~~Immatain~~Immatin in 1945==== The following is a breakdown of the land usage during 1945 in the dunams.<ref name=Hadawi106/><ref name=1945p18/> {\| class="wikitable" Line 124 ⟶ 133: ===Jordanian era=== In the wake of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], and after the [[1949 Armistice Agreements]], ~~Immatain~~Immatin came under [[Jordan]]ian rule. It was [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank\|annexed by Jordan]] in 1950. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 782 inhabitants in ''Immatin''.<ref>Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p25.pdf 25]</ref> ===Post-1967=== Since the [[Six-Day War]] in 1967, ~~Immatain~~ Immatin has been held under [[Israeli occupation of the West Bank\|Israeli occupation]]. In 1992, the 19- year-old Bilal Ahmed Ghanan from Immatain was killed by Israeli soldiers. A "shocking picture" of Ghanan's stitched-up body accompanied a [[2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy\|Aftonbladet 2009 news article]] about illegal organ removal allegations in the Israeli [[Abu Kabir Forensic Institute]].<ref name=Cook>{{cite news\|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/963/op2.htm\|title=But did it happen?\|author=Jonathan Cook\|newspaper=[[Al-Ahram]]\|date=September 3–9, 2009\|issue=963\|access-date=2024-04-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115054244/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/963/op2.htm\|archive-date=2010-01-15\|url-status=dead\|author-link=Jonathan Cook}}</ref> After the [[Oslo II Accord\|1995 accords]], 58.3% of the total village land of ~~Immatain~~Immatin/~~Fara~~Far'ata was classified as [[Palestinian enclaves\|Area B]] ~~land~~, while the remaining 41.7% was classified as [[Area C (West Bank)\|Area C]] ~~land~~.<ref name=ARIJ16>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170821215012/http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/immatin_vp_en.pdf Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality)], ARIJ, p. 16</ref> Israel has expropriated 163 dunams of land from ~~Immatain~~Immatin for the construction of the [[Israeli settlement]] of ‘Sha’ar Emmanuel’, part of the [[Immanuel (town)\|Immanuel]] settlement.<ref name=ARIJ17>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170821215012/http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/immatin_vp_en.pdf Immatin Village Profile (including Far’ata Locality)], ARIJ, p. 17</ref> In 2013 complaint were made over "training exercises" which the Israeli army held in the village. “The troops spread out through the village for several hours, withdrawing just before midnight." According to the Israeli army, the exercise was a "navigating run … whose purpose was to acquaint the forces more closely with the relevant sector, as well as demonstrating [[Israel Defense Forces\|IDF]] presence in the area".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/palestinian-israeli-training-raids-mock-arrests-human-rights Palestinian villages subject to Israeli mock raids not told they are exercises], Harriet Sherwood, 12 Nov 2013, [[The Guardian]]</ref> ==Population== According to the [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]], Immatain had a population of approximately 2,450 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,755 by 2017.<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /><ref>[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop04.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207042006/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop04.aspx \|date=2008-02-07 }} for Qalqilya Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]].</ref> Almost double the amount live abroad for [[political]] and [[economical]] reasons.{{Citation needed\|date=January 2008}} Each year, on average two family units emigrate from ~~Immatain~~Immatin.{{Citation needed\|date=January 2008}} ~~Immatain~~Immatin has four families. They are ~~Sawan~~Sawwan, Ghanim, ~~Albaree~~Albarree, and Matanee. {\| class="wikitable" Line 160 ⟶ 172: \|} === Population growth (1922 - 2007)=== Source:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|title = Immatin - اماتين -Nablus - Palestine Remembered\|url = http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Immatin_1191/\|website = www.palestineremembered.com\|access-date = 2016-02-01}}</ref>~~===~~ {{Graph:Chart \|width=300 \|height=200 \|type=line \|interpolate=monotone \|yGrid= \|xAxisAngle=-40 \|x=1922, 1931, 1945, 1961, 1982, 1987, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2017 \|y=234, 334, 440, 782, 717, 1230, 1741, 2368, 2534, 2755}} ==Footnotes== Line 170 ⟶ 185: ==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} {{cite book \| editor =Barron, J.B. \| title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 \|url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 \|publisher = Government of Palestine \| year = 1923}} {{cite book\|last1=Conder\|first1=C.R.\|~~authorlink1~~author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder\|last2=Kitchener\|first2=H.H.\|~~authorlink2~~author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener\|year=1882\|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft\|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology\|location=London\|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund\|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]\|volume=2}} {{cite book \| last= Dauphin \|first = C.\|author-link= Claudine Dauphin \| title = La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FC1mAAAAMAAJ \|volume = III : Catalogue \| series = BAR International Series 726 \| year = 1998 \| publisher = Archeopress \| location = Oxford\|language =~~French~~fr\|isbn= 0-860549-05-4}} {{cite book \| title = First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population \| author = Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics \| year = 1964\|url=http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf}} {{cite book\|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 \|url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390\|author=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics\|year=1945~~\|publisher=~~ }} {{cite book\|last=Guérin\|first=V.\|~~authorlink~~author-link=Victor Guérin\|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine\|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr04gugoog\|volume=2: Samarie, pt. 2\|year=1875\|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale\|location=Paris\|language=~~French~~fr}} {{cite book\|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine\|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html\|first=S.\|last=Hadawi\|~~authorlink~~author-link=Sami Hadawi\|year=1970\|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}} {{cite book \| last1= Hütteroth \|first1=W.-D.\|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth \|first2=~~Kamal~~K. \| last2=Abdulfattah \|author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah\| title = Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century \|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ \| year = 1977 \| publisher = Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft\|isbn= 3-920405-41-2}} {{cite book \| editor = Mills, E. \| title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas \|url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas \| publisher = Government of Palestine \| location = Jerusalem \| year = 1932}} {{cite book\|last=Palmer\|first=E.H.\|~~authorlink~~author-link=Edward Henry Palmer\|year=1881\|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft\|title=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\|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund\|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]}} {{cite book\|last1=Robinson\|first1=E.\|~~authorlink1~~author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)\|last2=Smith\|first2=E.\|~~authorlink2~~author-link2=Eli Smith\|year=1841\|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft \|title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838\| location=Boston\|publisher=[[Crocker & Brewster]]\|volume=3}} {{refend}} Line 190 ⟶ 205: [https://web.archive.org/web/20170821214856/http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/images/english/Immatin_ap_en.jpg Immatin, aerial photo], ARIJ [http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/needsfordevelopment/immatin_n_en.pdf Development Priorities and Needs in Imatin (including Far’ata Locality)], ARIJ [http://poica.org/2004/06/israeli-hoax-of-barriers-removal/ Israeli Hoax of Barriers removal] 22, June, 2004 [http://poica.org/2006/06/new-palestinian-enclaves-created-by-the-israeli-updated-wall-map-around-ariel-settlement-bloc/ New Palestinian Enclaves created by the Israeli updated wall map around Ariel Settlement Bloc.] 14, June, 2006, POICA [http://www.btselem.org/testimonies/20090110_havat_gilad_settlers_drive_farmers_off_their_land Testimony: Settlers attack Palestinian farmers on their land, Jan. '09], B'Tselem [http://poica.org/2009/05/gilad-zoher-colony-a-source-of-continuous-aggression-against-palestinian-farmers/ Gilad Zoher colony: a source of continuous aggression against Palestinian farmers], 20, May, 2009, POICA [http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2919&ed=175&edid=175 Harvest under Fire], This week in Palestine {{Qalqilya Governorate}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Qalqilya Governorate]] [[Category:Villages in the West Bank]] [[Category:Municipalities of the State of Palestine]] [[Category:Ancient Samaritan settlements]]