page_title: As-Sawiya
section_title: post-1967
hierarchical_section_title: As-Sawiya / History / post-1967
caption_attribution_description: English: “Kill or deport.” Graffiti settlers spray-painted in Hebrew on the wall of a home in a-Sawiyah, Nablus District. Photo by Salma a-Deb’i, B’Tselem, 18 April 2018.
context_page_description: as-Sawiya is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 18 kilometers South of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,301 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.
context_section_description: Since the Six-Day War in 1967, As-Sawiya has been under Israeli occupation.
  After the 1995 accords, approximately 14% of villageland was classified as Area B, the remaining 86% as Area C. Israel has confiscated 1,551 dunums of village land for the Israeli settlement of Alie, and 376 dunams for Rechalim. 
  As-Sawiya is entirely dependent on its agricultural land. Prior to the Second Intifada, about 250 of the village's residents worked in Israel, but in 2004 only three continued working there.
  The primary crops grown in as-Sawiya are wheat, olives, grapes, figs, and beans. The land is also used for grazing livestock. Some residents produce yoghurt from their cows and sell it. Local residents sell olive oil to nearby villages such as Lubban as well. Stone-cutting is the most important industry in the town after agriculture.
  According to locals, village life has been "deeply affected" by harassment from Jewish settlers. "People cannot go and harvest their land. The settlers take our olives, they throw rocks at people."
caption: "Kill or deport." Graffiti spray-painted in Hebrew by Israeli settlers on the wall of a home in As-Sawiya, 2018
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