Al-Khader
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Khader (Arabic: الخضر) is a Palestinian town in the Bethlehem Governorate in the south-central West Bank.[5] Al-Khader, in Arabic literally "The Green One", is the modern name of the village, which was called "Casale S. Georgii" during the Crusader era.[9][10] The owner of the arrowheads "signed" them, the translation being "dart/arrow of 'Abd Labi't [son of] Bin-'Anat", both names known from the period (see for instance the warrior Shamgar Ben Anat from the biblical Song of Deborah, Judges 5:6).[12][13] Al-Khader was founded as a subsidiary village of al-Walaja, emerging due to the Qays–Yaman war in the late 18th or early 19th century, during Ottoman rule.In 1838 it was recorded as a Muslim village by the English scholars Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, part of the Bani Hasan District, west of Jerusalem.[25] The Orthodox Christian Church owns several hundreds of dunams made up of vineyards, olive groves and field crops.[32] Since the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier around al-Khader, several thousand dunams of farmland have been separated from the village, with the inhabitants unable to access them without a permit.[34] The older part of al-Khader is situated on a saddle-shaped hill facing a steep ridge to the south and open areas to the north, in the central highlands of the West Bank.[13] Nearby localities include the Dheisheh Refugee Camp adjacent to the east, the village of Artas further to the east, Beit Jala to the northeast, al-Walaja and the Israeli settlement of Har Gilo to the north, Battir and Husan to the northwest, Nahalin and the Israeli settlements of Beitar Illit to the west, Neve Daniel to the southeast, and Elazar to the south.
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