Beit Hanina

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Beit Hanina (2012) with Beit Hanina Al-Jadida (above) and Beit Hanina Al-Balad (below)
Beit Hanina (2017)
West Bank Barrier between Beit Hanina and Ramallah (2017)

Beit Hanina , also Bait Hanina , ( Hebrew בית חנינא, Arabic بيت حنينا, DMG Bayt Ḥanīnā ) is a Palestinian city ​​in East Jerusalem .

overview

Bait Hanina is on the road to Ramallah , eight kilometers north of central Jerusalem , at an altitude of 780 meters above sea level. Beit Hanina borders in the east on Pisgat Ze'ev and Hizma , in the south on Ramot , Ramat Shlomo and Shuafat , in the west on Beit Iksa and Nabi Samwil and in the north on Bir Nabala , Al-Jib , Kafr Aqab and Al-Ram .

Beit Hanina is by the 8.2 km Israeli West Bank Barrier in Al-Jadida (the new village), which is in the Israeli community of Jerusalem (Al-Quds) and which covers the vast majority of the built-up area of ​​the place, and Al -Balad (the old village) that is outside the parish in the West Bank. The total area of ​​Beit Hanina is 16.3 m². Beit Hanina has around 40,000 inhabitants, of which around 1,170 are in Beit Hanina Al-Balad.

history

Originally a Canaanite village, whose name means either "the house of someone who deserves pity" or "camp", the people of Beit Hanina trace their roots to the Howeitat and other Bedouin tribes who immigrated from Egypt and the East Bank.

Originally, Beit Hanina was a purely Muslim village, but some Palestinian Christians moved to Beit Hanina as early as the 1950s. By 1961, it had an estimated population of 3,067, including 332 Christians. In 1967, most of Beit Hanina was annexed by the Israeli occupation authorities and came under the jurisdiction of the Israeli occupation community. The smaller part called Beit Hanina Al-Balad (the old village) or Beit Hanina a-Tahta was considered an area in the West Bank. This has led to a situation where some residents of Beit Hanina have a residence in Jerusalem while the others carry Palestinian ID cards.

Beit Hanina is a busy trading post with many shops and offices as well as a center for leisure, commercial, educational and health facilities for all of North Jerusalem, albeit compromised by the West Bank barrier.

In Beit Hanina there is the Catholic St. Jacob Church, which belongs to the parish of the Jerusalem Salvatorkirche .

Web links

Commons : Beit Hanina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Beit Hanina Al-Balad in Al-Quds (West Bank) , accessed on June 28, 2020 (English)
  2. ↑ Beit Hanina (Jerusalem 2112) , accessed on June 28, 2020 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Beit Hanina , accessed on June 28, 2020 (English)


Coordinates: 31 ° 49 ′ 50 ″  N , 35 ° 12 ′ 58 ″  E