Khirbet Zanuta
Khirbet Zanuta
خربة زنوتا (Arabic) | |
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Local Development Committee | |
Khirbet Zanuta Location of Khirbet Zanuta within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°22′15″N 34°59′44″E / 31.37083°N 34.99556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 149/086 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Hebron |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local Development Committee |
| Area | |
• Total | 12.0 km2 (4.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 131 |
| • Density | 10.9/km2 (28.3/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | "The ruin of Zanuta" |
Khirbet Zanuta (Arabic: خربة زنوتا, romanized: the ruin of Zanuta) was a Palestinian Bedouin village in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, located 20 kilometers south of Hebron. It was ethnically cleansed during the 2023 Gaza war. Some farmers remained or returned and the attacks continued. Israeli settlers destroyed the village school and most houses, and the IDF has refused to give its expelled residents permission to rebuild.
Neighbouring villages include ad-Dhahiriya to the northwest and Khirbet Shweika to the northwest, as well as two Israeli settlements, Teneh Omarim to the west and Shim'a to the east. The Meitarim industrial zone just to its east was built for the settlers. The village is adjacent to the Green Line.