This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.az-Za'ayyem (Arabic: الزعیّم) is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate, located 3 kilometers east of Jerusalem in the central West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 6,270 in 2017.

[1] The healthcare facilities for az-Za'ayyem according to the Ministry of Health are obtained in East Jerusalem.

After the 1995 accords, 3.8% (or 236 dunams) of the land was classified as Area B, the remaining 96.2% (or 5,896 dunams) as Area C.[3] Israel has confiscated land from az-Za'ayyem in order to construct two Israeli settlements: Az-Za'ayyem lies close to Highway 1 to Jerusalem and the az-Za'ayyem check point in the separation barrier.

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