This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.al-Karmil (Arabic: خربة الكرمل) is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south of Hebron.

[4] The Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) authors, Conder & Kitchener, managed to trace an ancient road from Jerusalem to "El Kŭrmŭl" in 1874.

[10] Towards the end of the fourth century, already during the Byzantine period, the Notitia Dignitatum document mentions an Illyrian cavalry unit in the town of Chermula.

[14] Mader was witness to the villagers of Yatta using the ruins as a source for cut stones for their houses, in one case repurposing half of an inscribed lintel from a Byzantine church.

[4] In 1984, Avraham Negev [he], starting from "still insufficient" archaeological evidence and a thorough reassessment of ancient written sources, proposed that Eusebius, by naming the village associated in his time with biblical Carmel in two different ways, Chermala and Karmelos, did not make one of his known mistakes, but reflected the existence of two associated settlements.

Negev suggests that "old Carmel" (al-Karmil) was garrisoned by the Romans only after the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135), at which point most of its Jewish inhabitants gradually left during the years 150–300.

[15][16] "Carmel", today's Khirbat al-Karmil, was mentioned in Crusader sources in 1172/3,[17][10] as the place King Amalric of Jerusalem assembled his army, next to a large ancient water reservoir.

Gideon Levy writes: The terraces, decorative landscaping, Hebron stones, washrooms and a spring that gushes from the rock next to the pool – all make this one of the most spectacular outdoor sites in the West Bank.