Jifna
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Jifna is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank of the State of Palestine, located 8 kilometers north of Ramallah and 23 kilometers north of Jerusalem.
A woman in Jifna weaving in the traditional method, 1921
A church in Jifna, 2012
Western part of Jifna
Birzeit
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Birzeit, also Bir Zeit, is a Palestinian Christian town north of Ramallah, in the West Bank. Its population in the 2017 census was 5,878. Birzeit is home to Birzeit University and to the Birzeit Brewe
Jifna
…Also in the 1880s, Jifna was frequently taxed by Ottoman authorities. It also came into consistent armed conflict with another Christian village, Bir Zeit, which in one incident, resulted in the deaths of five men from that village. In retaliation, residents of Bir Zeit uprooted and burned 125 of Jifna's…
Bir Zeit 273
Birzeit's historic core
Our Lady Queen of Peace - Guadalupe
St. George Orthodox Church in Old Birzeit