- published: 07 Mar 2014
- views: 162
Salfit (Arabic: سلفيت), also spelled Salfeet, is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank. Salfit is located at an altitude of 570 meters (1,870 ft) adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Salfit had a population of 8,796 in 2007. It has been administered by the Palestinian Authority since the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has served as the administrative seat of the Salfit Governorate since then.
According to the Salfit Chamber of Commerce, the word "Salfit" is a Canaanite word which means "basket of grapes" (Sal meaning "basket and fit meaning "grapes".)Palmer in 1881 suggested the name was possible from "levelled sown field".
Pottery sherds from the Iron Age I, Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic, and the Roman eras have been found, while no sherds from the Byzantine era have been found.
According to Ronnie Ellenblum, Salfit was re-established during early Muslim rule (7th-11th centuries) and continued to exist through the Crusader period. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Salfit was inhabited by Muslims. Pottery sherds from the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found.
RADIO STATION | GENRE | LOCATION |
---|---|---|
Free Palestine Radio | World Middle East | Palestine |
Alaqsa Voice | Talk | Palestine |
Al-Quds Radio | News,World Middle East | Palestine |
Raya FM | Varied | Palestine |
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzRhRiGMw4I Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUFtf_4Gus Famous for stone and marble cutting, its huge agricultural industry and the largest supply of olives in Palestine, Salfit is an important region in Palestinian agriculture. However, Salfit is one of the provinces in Palestine worst affected with Israeli settlements. It lies adjacent to the largest settlement in Palestine, Ariel, and is surrounded on all sides by other settlements. There are 23 illegal Israeli settlement blocs in the area and the numbers of settlers are now more than the numbers of the local Palestinian population. The land to the north has been divided into two with a checkpoint blocking access for farmers to their land as it lies on the road to Ariel. The exploita...
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzRhRiGMw4I Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUFtf_4Gus Famous for stone and marble cutting, its huge agricultural industry and the largest supply of olives in Palestine, Salfit is an important region in Palestinian agriculture. However, Salfit is one of the provinces in Palestine worst affected with Israeli settlements. It lies adjacent to the largest settlement in Palestine, Ariel, and is surrounded on all sides by other settlements. There are 23 illegal Israeli settlement blocs in the area and the numbers of settlers are now more than the numbers of the local Palestinian population. The land to the north has been divided into two with a checkpoint blocking access for farmers to their land as it lies on the road to Ariel. The exploita...
English/Nat A Palestinian march to protest at an Israeli decision to confiscate lands of the West Bank village of Salfit turned into clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths. Dozens of Palestinian youths pelted Israeli soldiers guarding the nearby Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli troops clashed in the West Bank on Monday as U-S envoy Denis Ross wrapped up his four-day Mideast tour of the region. Those protests were held to mark Land Day, an annual commemoration of a 1976 protest against land confiscation in which six Israeli Arabs were killed by Israeli troops. But tensions rose as Ross failed to secure agreement from Israelis and Palestinians on American proposals for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Ban...
Salfit 1. Israeli tank drives past, village of Salfit visible in distance 2. Various of Israeli armoured vehicles 3. Bulldozer moving 4. Israeli tank moving 5. Red Cross jeep arriving 6. Ambulance arriving 7. Israeli soldiers transferring blindfolded Palestinian men from APC to truck 8. Convoy of trucks driving along road 9. Ambulance leaving Ramallah 10. Various of delegates leaving office of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Terje Larsen, special UN representative, Middle East "We, the quartet, came to Ramallah today to offer our full support for the reform initiative undertaken by Chairman Arafat. We hope that this initiative, including the wise measures proposed by the PLC (Palestinian Legislative Council) will be implemented as quickly as possible...
In early June, during the month of Ramadan, the Israeli water company Mekorot, cut back water supply to several Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank, including the town of Salfit (population: 15,000). These communities suffered from an acute water shortage throughout the summer, and continue to suffer from it today. Israel has exclusive control over the supply of water to the entire West Bank, and the amount of water it supplies to Palestinians falls short of the amount the WHO recommends and the amount it supplies to Israelis. In this video, Jamal Shahin, from Salfit, speaks about the severe damage the sudden water cutback caused his dairy farm. Learn more: http://www.btselem.org/water/201609_israel_cut_back_supply
The agricultural district of Salfit, about 25 miles north of Jerusalem, is facing health and environmental problems throughout its villages because of a constant stream of sewage from nearby illegal Israeli settlements, most notably Barkan and Ariel settlements which also hold illegal factory developments. See the below video with photos and video taken on a recent visit to Salfit by solidarity activists.
1. Wide of Debris of police headquarters in Salfit 2. Various of rubble 3. People walking over rubble 4. People sifting through rubble 5. Man picking up and cleaning picture of Yasser Arafat 6. Wide of destroyed building pan across rubble 7. Mid shot of car with large stones and dust on it - pull out through arch of building 8. Wall of destroyed building with Palestinian police shield hung amongst the broken walls 9. Man collects bottles 10. Satellite dish sitting amongst rubble 11. Pan across building remains STORYLINE: Israeli F-16 warplanes and tanks demolished police buildings in four Palestinian towns early Sunday. One Palestinian was killed and 18 injured in the raids. One of the air strikes leveled the police headquarters in Salfit. Doctors said ei...
salfit landscape :D
People want that slow food
Two minutes and they grouch
But give me ham baked all day long
And help me to the couch
Help me to the sofa
Put the quiet music on
I will lie and think about that ham
Long after it is gone.
I want some slo-o-o-o-ow food.
I don't want no food with cute names
No neon on a sign
A man can't live on advertising slogans
And conceptual design
Let somebody else go surf and turf
Someone else go carry out
Me, I want my food to know itself
Before it knows my mouth.
I want some slo-o-o-o-ow food
With all the love cooked in.
Why don't we start it in the mornin'
Leave us plenty of time for lovin'
Weekend homemade hot fresh bread
Make the whole house smell like an oven
And let it all just simmer
Cook in the good juices and the greases
Then we'll sit down at the table, baby
And slowly tear it into pieces.
I want some slo-o-o-o-ow food
What's the big rush?..../Don't want no hard-hearted
Hardee's, no
Muck-muck-muck-muck-donald's....I want a chef, not a
clown, to make my
Food.../it can even be tofu with the right kinda
sauce..../blahblahblah-
I want some slo-o-o-o-ow food