Hebron Governorate

The Hebron Governorate (محافظة الخليل) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

The governorate's land area is 1060 km2 and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510. This makes the Hebron Governorate the largest of 16 governorates in both population and land area in the Palestinian territories. The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate. The governor is Hussein al-Araj and its district commander is Abdel Fattah al-Ju’eidi.

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.

Localities
The Hebron Governorate has a total of seven cities and eighteen towns. The governorate also contains more than 100 Bedouin villages and settlements that are not listed below.

Cities

 * Dura
 * Halhul
 * Hebron (capital)
 * Yatta
 * ad-Dhahiriya

Municipalities
The following localities have municipality status from the Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority.


 * Bani Na'im
 * Beit 'Awwa
 * Beit Ula
 * Beit Ummar
 * Deir Sammit
 * Idhna
 * Kharas


 * Nuba
 * Sa'ir
 * as-Samu
 * Surif
 * Tarqumiya
 * Taffuh

Village councils
The following have populations over 1,000 persons.


 * Al Baqa
 * Beit 'Amra
 * Beit Einun
 * Beit Kahil
 * Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
 * al-Burj
 * Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
 * ad-Duwwara
 * Hadab al-Fawwar
 * al-Heila
 * Hureiz
 * Imreish
 * Karma
 * al-Karmil
 * Khalet al-Maiyya
 * Khursa
 * Ruq'a
 * al-Kum
 * Khirbet Safa
 * Khirbat al-Simia
 * Kuseis
 * al-Majd
 * Qalqas
 * Qila
 * al-Ramadien
 * ar-Rihiya
 * ash-Shuyukh
 * Shuyukh al-Arrub
 * as-Sura
 * at-Tabaqa
 * al-Uddeisa
 * Zif

Refugee camps

 * al-Arroub
 * al-Fawwar