{{Short description|Palestinian village north of Jerusalem}} {{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{Infobox settlement | name = an-Nabi Samwil | translit_lang1 = Arabic | translit_lang1_type = Arabic | translit_lang1_info = النبي صموئيل | translit_lang1_type1= Latin | translit_lang1_info1= an-Nebi Samwil (official)<br />an-Nabi Samuil (unofficial) | type = Local Development Committee | image_skyline = נבי סמואל רחפן.jpg | image_caption = Aerial view | pushpin_map = Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location of an-Nabi Samwil within Palestine | image_map = Nebi Samuel "National Park" in the 2018 OCHA OpT map East Jerusalem (cropped).jpg | map_caption = Nabi Samwil shown within the Area C "National Park" (hashed area) | coordinates = {{coord|31|49|58|N|35|10|49|E|region:PS|display=inline,title}} | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 167/137 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = State of Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Quds | established_title = Founded | established_date= | government_footnotes= <!-- for references: use <ref> tags --> | government_type = Local Development Committee | leader_title= | leader_name= | unit_pref = dunam | area_footnotes= | area_total_km2 = 1.6 | area_total_dunam = 1592 | elevation_m= | elevation_min_m= | elevation_max_m = 908 | elevation_footnotes= | 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_total = 234 | population_as_of = 2017 | population_note= | population_density_km2= auto | blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning | blank_info_sec1 = "the prophet Samuel"<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/324/mode/1up 324]</ref> | website= | footnotes= }}
'''An-Nabi Samwil''', also called '''al-Nabi Samuil''' ({{langx|ar|النبي صموئيل}} ''an-Nabi Samu'il'', translit: "the prophet Samuel"), is a Palestinian village in the Quds Governorate of the State of Palestine, located in the West Bank (Area C), four kilometers north of Jerusalem. The village is built up around the Mosque of Nabi Samwil, containing the Tomb of Samuel; the village's Palestinian population has been removed by the Israeli authorities from the village houses to a new location slightly down the hill. The village had a population of 234 in 2017.<ref name= PrelimCensus2017/>
A tradition dating back to the Byzantine period places here the tomb of Prophet Samuel. In the 6th century, a monastery was built at the site in honor of Samuel, and during the early Arab period the place was known as ''Dir Samwil'' (the Samuel Monastery).<ref name= park>{{Cite web |title=Nebi Samuel Park – Israel Nature and Parks Authority |url=https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/nebi-samuel-park/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312003238/https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/nebi-samuel-park/ |archive-date=2022-03-12 |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=en.parks.org.il}}</ref> In the 12th century, during the Crusader period, a fortress was built on the area.<ref name= park/> In the 14th century, during the Mamluk period, a mosque was built over the ruins of the Crusader fortress.<ref name= park/> The purported tomb itself is in an underground chamber of the mosque, which has been repurposed after 1967 as a synagogue, today with separate prayer areas for Jewish men and women.
==Geography== Nabi Samwil is situated atop of a mountain, 890 meters above sea level, in the Seam Zone, four kilometers north of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat and southwest of Ramallah.<ref name="Jacobs">Jacobs, Daniel. (1998). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JXoY2vCZ5AEC&dq=Bittin&pg=RA5-PA434 Israel and the Palestinian territories]''. Rough Guides, p.429.</ref> Nearby localities include Beit Iksa to the south, al Jib to the north, Beit Hanina to the east and Biddu to the west.<ref>[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/al_Nabi_Samwil_1074/SatelliteView.html Satellite View of al-Nabi Samwil]</ref>
The village consisted of 1,592 dunams of which only 5 dunams were built-up.<ref name="PR">[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/al_Nabi_Samwil_1074/index.html#Statistics Welcome to al-Nabi Samwil] Palestine Remembered.</ref>
==Tomb of Samuel tradition== A 6th-century Christian author identified the site as Samuel's burial place, and it has been traditionally associated as such by Jews, Christians and Muslims. According to the Hebrew Bible, the prophet was buried at his hometown, Ramah ({{bibleverse|1 Samuel 25:1, 28:3|multi=yes}}), a view repeated by Josephus (''Antiquities'' 6.13.5.). According to some scholars, since Samuel is buried at Nabi Samwil, hence it follows that Nabi Samwil is the biblical Ramah.<ref>Pierotti (1864), p. [https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012261307/page/280/mode/2up 36 (note II)]</ref> Others, namely, Edward Robinson, disputed this view, saying that Nabi Samwil was to be identified with Mizpeh, a view supported by Gleichen.<ref>Gleichen (1925), p. 8</ref> As Judas Machabeus, preparing for war with the Syrians, gathered his men "to Maspha {{sic}}, over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel".<ref>I Mach., iii, 46, cited in {{CathEncy|wstitle=Maspha}}</ref>
The 12th-century Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela visited the site in 1173. According to him, the Christian Crusaders had found the bones of Samuel "close to a Jewish synagogue" in Ramla on the coastal plain (which he misidentified as biblical Ramah), and reburied them at present-day Nabi Samwil. He wrote that a large church dedicated to St. Samuel had been built over the reburied remains.<ref>{{cite book |author=Adler, Nathan Marcus |url=http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/tudela.html |title=The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Critical Text, Translation and Commentary |publisher=Phillip Feldheim, Inc. |year=1907 |volume=See "St. Samuel of Shiloh" and footnote 87 |location=New York |author-link=Nathan Marcus Adler |access-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021154432/https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/tudela.html |archive-date=21 October 2019 |url-status=live |via=washington.edu}}</ref>
==History: shrine and village== {{See also|Tomb of Samuel|Operation Yevusi}} thumb|right|The Nabi Samwil mosque, 2012
An old tradition holds that the village contains the tomb of the prophet Samuel, whose Arabic name is ''Nabi Samwil'',<ref name="Jacobs"/><ref name="JMCC"/> hence the name of the Arab village.
===Byzantine period=== A monastery was built by the Byzantines at Nabi Samwil, serving as a hostel for Christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. The monastery was restored and enlarged during the reign of Justinian I in the mid-6th-century CE.<ref name="IMFA"/> Since then, the site has been a place of pilgrimage for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike.<ref name="Jacobs"/>
===Early Muslim period=== The tomb continued to be in use throughout the Early Muslim period in Palestine from the 7th to the 10th century.<ref name="IMFA"/>
Jerusalem-born geographer al-Muqaddasi recounted in 985 CE, a story which he had heard from his uncle concerning the place: A certain sultan wanted to take possession of Dayr Shamwil, which he describes as a village about a ''farsakh'' from Jerusalem. The Sultan asked the owner to describe the village, at which the owner enumerated the ills of the place ("hard is the labour,/the profit is low./Weeds are all over,/almonds are bitter,/one bushel you sow,/one bushel you reap.") After hearing this the ruler exclaimed "Begone! We have no need for your village!"<ref>Al-Muqaddasi (Basil Anthony Collins (Translator)): ''The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions. Ahasan al-Taqasim Fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim.'' Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1994, {{ISBN|1-873938-14-4}}, p. 171, (orig. p.188). Older translation is given in Le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/433/mode/1up 433]</ref> 13th-century Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi, describes ''"Mar Samwil"'' or "''Maran Samwil"'' as "a small town in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Mar in Syriac signifies ''al-Kass'', 'the priest', and Samwil is the name of the Doctors of Law."<ref>Le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/433/mode/1up 433] (orig. Yak., iv. 391; Mar., iii.29)</ref> During Islamic times, Nabi Samwil became a centre for pottery production,<ref name="Sha1">Sharon, 2004, p. [https://archive.org/stream/9004131973#page/n172/mode/1up 118]</ref> supplying nearby Jerusalem, as well as Ramla and Caesarea.<ref>Sharon, 2004, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/9004131973#page/n176/mode/1up 122] -123</ref>
===Crusader/Ayyubid period=== In 1099, the Crusaders conquered Palestine from the Arab Fatimids and received their first view of Jerusalem from the mountain upon which Nabi Samwil is built, thus naming it ''Mont Joie'' ("Mountain of Joy"). They soon constructed a fortress there to fend off Muslim raiding of Jerusalem's northern approaches as well as to shelter pilgrim convoys.<ref name="IMFA"/>
In 1157, the Crusaders constructed a church at Samuel's tomb.<ref name="Jacobs"/> King Baldwin II of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem entrusted Nabi Samwil to Cistercians religious order, who built a monastery there and then handed it over to the Premonstratensians in the 1120s.<ref name="Sha1"/> The 12th-century Jewish traveller, Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, visited the site when he travelled the land in 1173, noting that the Crusaders had found the bones of Samuel in a Jewish cemetery in Ramla on the coastal plain and reburied them here, overlooking the Holy City. He wrote that a church dedicated to St. Samuel of Shiloh had been built on the hill.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/tudela.html|title=Travelling to Jerusalem--Benjamin of Tudela|website=depts.washington.edu}}</ref> This may refer to the abbey church of St. Samuel built by Premonstratensian canons and inhabited from 1141 to 1244.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.premontre.org/subpages/loci/domi/saint-samuel,%20dd.htm |title=Summary Page: Palestine/Israel (Kingdom of Jerusalem)-St. Samuel<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2010-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104505/http://www.premontre.org/subpages/loci/domi/saint-samuel,%20dd.htm |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
After the Ayyubids under Saladin conquered much of interior Palestine in 1187, the church and monastery were turned into a mosque and since then remained in Muslim hands. in 1192, Richard the Lionheart reached Nabi Samwil, but did not take it.<ref>Sharon, 2004, p. [https://archive.org/stream/9004131973#page/n173/mode/1up 119]</ref> Jewish pilgrimage, which favoured visits in April and May each year, resumed after the Ayyubids conquered the area, and it became an important center for Muslim-Jewish interaction.<ref name="Yazbak 237-9" >Mahmoud Yazbak, 'Holy shrines (''maqamat'') in modern Palestine/Israel and the politics of memory,' in Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter, Leonard Hammer (eds.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nROPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA237 ''Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Confrontation and Co-existence,''] Routledge 2010 pp. 231-246 p.237.</ref>
===Mamluk period=== During the Mamluk period, Christian pilgrims continued to visit the site, including the traveller known as John Mandeville, and Margery Kempe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rememberedplaces.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/mount-joy-the-view-from-palestine/|title=Mount Joy: the view from Palestine|date=January 21, 2014}}</ref>
In the 15th-century, Jews built a synagogue adjacent to the mosque and resumed pilgrimages to the site after losing that privilege during the Crusader period. Though they occasionally encountered difficulties with local notables, the Jews' right to visit the shrine was reaffirmed twice by the Ottomans, and the sultan asked the qadi of Jerusalem to punish anyone who might obstruct their right and the long tradition of Jewish pilgrimage. Mujir ad-Din referring to Jerusalem's size writes "From the north it reaches the village wherein is the tomb of the prophet Shamwil, may Allah bless him and give him peace."<ref>Sharon, 2004, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/9004131973#page/n173/mode/1up 119] -120.</ref>
===Ottoman period=== In 1517, Palestine incorporated into the Ottoman Empire after it was captured from the Mamluks, and by 1596, Nabi Samwil appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as being in the ''nahiya'' of Quds in the ''liwa'' of Al-Quds. It had a population of 5 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives; a total of 2,200 akçe.<ref>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 113</ref>
The Crusader church was incorporated into the village mosque,<ref name="Jacobs"/> built in 1730 under the Ottoman Empire.<ref name="IMFA"/>
In 1838 Edward Robinson noted ''en-Neby Samwil'' as a Muslim village, part of the ''El-Kuds'' district.<ref name=Robinson121>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/121/mode/1up 121]</ref> He further noted that the "mosk is here the principal object; and is regarded by Jews, Christians, and Muhammedans, as covering the tomb of the prophet Samuel."<ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearc00smitgoog#page/n161/mode/1up 139] -145</ref>
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Nabi Samwil had 6 houses and a population of 20, though the population count included only men.<ref>Socin, 1879, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/158/mode/1up 158]</ref><ref>Hartmann, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n935/mode/1up 127], also noted 6 houses</ref>
In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as small hamlet of adobe huts, perched on top of the ridge, amid the remains of the Crusader ruins. There was a spring to the north.<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/12/mode/1up 12]</ref> thumb|Nabi Samwil during the early 20th century In 1896 the population of Nebi Samwil was estimated to be about 81 persons.<ref>Schick, 1896, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde19deut#page/n232/mode/1up 125]</ref>
===World War and British Mandate period=== {{See also|Battle of Nebi Samwil}} Nabi Samwil was heavily damaged by Turkish shells in 1917 while fighting British forces, but the village was rebuilt and resettled in 1921.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/18/98257183.pdf Jerusalem Won at Bayonet's Point] ''New York Times''. 1917-12-17.</ref> The Ottoman mosque, destroyed in war, was restored by the Supreme Muslim Council during the British Mandate period.<ref name="JMCC">[http://www.jmcc.org/palculture/go.htm#nabisamuel Nabi Samuel - Jerusalem] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125080612/http://jmcc.org/palculture/go.htm |date=2008-01-25 }} Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre.</ref><ref name="IMFA">[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Nebi%20Samwil%20-%20Site%20of%20a%20Biblical%20Town%20and%20a%20Crusad Nebi Samwil - Site of a Biblical Town and a Crusader Fortress] Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2001-09-01.</ref>
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Nabi Shemweil'' had a population 121, all Muslims.<ref name=Census1922>Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n16/mode/1up 14]</ref> increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 138, one Christian and the rest Muslim, occupying a total of 117 houses.<ref name=Census1931>Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 41]</ref>
In the 1945 statistics Nabi Samwil had a population of 200, all Muslims,<ref name=1945p25>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p25.jpg 25]</ref> with 2,150 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.<ref name=Hadawi57>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jerusalem/Page-057.jpg 57]</ref> Of this, 293 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 986 used for cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jerusalem/Page-103.jpg 103]</ref> while 3 dunams were built-up land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jerusalem/Page-153.jpg 153]</ref>
===1948 war and Jordanian period=== On April 23, 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, a Palmach division attacked Nabi Samwil with the intention of capturing the village for Israel. The operation failed, since its local defenders had been notified that nearby Beit Iksa was attacked and thus prepared for a Jewish assault. Over 40 Palmach troops were killed in the battle with minimal Arab casualties.<ref>Tal, 2003, p. 118</ref>
From 1948 to 1967, Nabi Samwil was used by the Arab Legion of Jordan as a military post guarding access to Jerusalem.<ref name="Jacobs"/>
In 1961, the population of Nabi Samwil was 168.<ref>Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p24.pdf 24]</ref>
===1967, aftermath=== thumb|School in Nabi Samwil
Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Nabi Samwil has been under Israeli occupation.<ref name="Jacobs"/>
After Israel's victory and occupation in the war, during which most of the village's 1,000 inhabitants<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.972mag.com/an-nabi-samwil-israel-expulsion-golda-meir/|title=Israel destroyed Palestinian village for luxury settlement that was never built|first1=Yuval|last1=Abraham|date=August 30, 2022|website=+972 Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://emekshaveh.org/en/nabi-samuel-national-park-2/|title=Nabi Samwil – A Village Trapped in a National Park|date=September 13, 2013}}</ref> had fled, the shrine became predominantly Jewish, and settlers attempted to wrest control of the area.<ref name=Reiter>{{cite book |author= Yitzhak Reiter |title= Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine; Sharing and Conflict Resolution |year= 2017 |page= 272 |publisher= Routledge}}</ref><ref name="Yazbak 237-9" /> Throughout the 1970s, the Israeli authorities demolished the historic village built around the shrine, forcing its inhabitants into ramshackle buildings further down the hill.<ref name="MNA" >[http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=759298 'Palestinian village imprisoned in holy shrine of Nabi Samuel,'] Ma'an News Agency12 February 2015.</ref><ref name=Reiter/> Nabi Samwil was drawn in good part within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, while the inhabitants themselves were excluded, and its inhabitants were defined in their identity cards as West Bankers, and are prohibited by the Israeli military administration from leaving the village in any direction without authorisation.<ref name="MNA" /> Since the mid-2000s, Nabi Samwil, excluding the shrine, became part of an area known as the "Seam Zone", which denotes the land between the separation barrier erected during the Second Intifada, and the borders of Jerusalem municipality.<ref name="Economist">[https://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2014/01/tourist-sites-west-bank Tourist sites in the West Bank: Wish you were here?]. ''The Economist''. 2014-01-06.</ref> The only exit from the village is to nearby Bir Nabala via an Israeli checkpoint.<ref name="MNA" />{{dead link|date=December 2019}}
thumb|Archaeological excavations around the Tomb of Samuel The village, which is not recognized as such by Israel, was designated as a national park in the 1990s and the remains of former homes adjacent to the mosque form part of an archaeological site in the park. The mosque has been cordoned off and the section containing Samuel's tomb has been converted into a synagogue. Partly due to Israeli military restrictions, Palestinian construction in the village is banned. Economic activity is also significantly restricted and residents live in poverty, with many young residents leaving for jobs in nearby Ramallah. Israel states its policies are intended to preserve the site of Nabi Samwil.<ref name="Economist"/>
==Demographics== In 1922, Nabi Samwil had 121 inhabitants,<ref name=Census1922/> rising to 138 in 1931.<ref name=Census1931/> In Sami Hadawi's land and population survey in 1945, 200 people resided there.<ref name=Hadawi57/> By 1981 the number dropped to 66 inhabitants but was up to 136 within five years.<ref name="PR"/> According to the 2007 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Nabi Samwil had a population of 258 inhabitants in 2007.<ref>[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007] Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. 2008. Retrieved on 2012-02-29.</ref> About 20 Muslim families live there. A group of 90 Bedouins living in al Jib who had been evicted from Nabi Samwil were refused permission to move back because the village lies in Area C and it would be difficult for them to acquire building permits.<ref>[http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/Weekly_Briefing_Notes_243_English.pdf Protection of Civilians Weekly Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314131614/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/weekly_briefing_notes_243_english.pdf |date=2016-03-14 }} United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, p.7. January 2008.</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/al_Nabi_Samwil_1074/index.html Welcome To al-Nabi Samwil] *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: [https://web.archive.org/web/20181103051759/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8379 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.17.jpg Wikimedia commons] *[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/factsheet/An%20Nabi%20Samwil_EN.pdf An Nabi Samwil Village (Fact Sheet)], Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) *[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/vprofile/An%20Nabi%20Samwil_EN.pdf An Nabi Samwil Village Profile], ARIJ *[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/images/english/An%20Nabi%20Samwil_ap_en.jpg An Nabi Samwil Aerial photo], ARIJ *[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/needsfordevelopment/An%20Nabi%20Samwil.pdf Locality Development Priorities and Needs in An Nabi Samwil], ARIJ *[http://www.btselem.org/english/freedom_of_movement/20080706_severing_nabi_samwil_from_wb.asp Israel severs a-Nabi Samwil Village from rest of the West Bank], B'Tselem *[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_nebi_samwil.html Battle of Nebi Samwil]
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