Huwara
Sign in to saveHuwara or Howwarah (, ) is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine. Located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, Huwara is on the main road connecting Nablus southwards to Ramallah and Jerusalem, approximately from Jacob's Well. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 6,659 in 2017.
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- Huwara
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- Howwarah
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- Arabic
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- Arabic
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- Latin
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- Howwarah (official)Huwara (unofficial)Ḥuwwārah (technical)
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- Municipality type C
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- Huwara
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- Palestine
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- Location of Huwara within Palestine
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- Huwwara in the 2018 OCHA OpT map Nablus (cropped).jpg
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- 174/173
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- State
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- State of Palestine
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- Governorate
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- Nablus
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- Crusader period
- Ottoman period (1516–1917)
- British Mandate period
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- 2023–present
- Demography
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Huwara or Howwarah (, ) is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine. Located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, Huwara is on the main road connecting Nablus southwards to Ramallah and Jerusalem, approximately from Jacob's Well. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 6,659 in 2017.
Huwara is a flashpoint town in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Huwara is on the main road to nearby Israeli settlements, leading to frequent clashes between Israeli soldiers and settlers and local Palestinians. Most notably, two Israeli civilian-settlers passing the town were shot by a Palestinian gunman in a shooting attack. In response to the shooting attack, the town was rampaged by hundreds of Israeli settlers, who torched Palestinian businesses and houses, leaving one dead and one hundred Palestinians injured.