Zawiya, Jenin
Az-Zawiya (; also spelled "Zawiyeh") is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 770 in 2007. History. Pottery sherds from Early Bronze Age I and II, Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic and early Roman have been found here. Tombs and a columbarium have been cut into the rock, and ceramics from the Byzantine era have also been found here, as have sherds from early Muslim and Medieval eras. Ottoman era. In 1517, Zawiya  was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village named "Zawiyat", or alternatively "Sayh Mohammad Rifa'i", in the "nahiya" (subdistrict) of Jabal Sami in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim. In 1870, Victor Guérin described as having a small number of houses, situated on a mound. In 1882, the PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" described it as: "A hamlet on a hill side, with a well to the west. It seems to take its name from the sudden twist in  the road near the place." British Mandate era. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, "Zawieh" had a population 45 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 76 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses. In 1945 statistics the population was 120 Muslims, with 1,066 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 310 dunams were used for cereals, while 4 dunams were built-up, urban land. Jordanian era. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Zawiya came under Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population  of Zawiya was 152. Israeli occupation. Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Zawiya has been under Israeli occupation, and according to the Israeli census of that year, the population of "Zawiya" stood at 239, of whom 13 were registered as having come from Israel. On Saturday 9 January 2016 the owner of a local trading company, Said Abu Al-Wafa (35), was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the Beka'ot roadblock.