This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Dura al-Qar' (Arabic: دورا القرع) or Dura al-Qari'a is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
According to Dura al-Qar's village council, 142 families have been directly affected by the confiscations and 58% of the town's population depend on those lands as main sources of income.
[citation needed] Dura el Qar' is located on the Samarian hills,[4] 6.6 kilometers (4.1 mi) north-east of Ramallah.
[1] The village is located atop irrigated terraces, constructed within a valley, accompanied by multiple private reservoirs.
[9][10] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Durah as "a small village on the side of a valley, with springs on the south, and olives".
[21] On August 14, 1995, Kheir Abdel Hafid Qassem, a 24-year-old Palestinian man, was shot dead by an Israeli settler from Beit El, and many people were arrested, while he and about a 100 other residents of Dura al-Qar' were attempting to drive away settlers by tearing down Israeli canvas shelters and cinder-block buildings outside of the village.