This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Huwara or Howwarah (Arabic: حُوّارة, romanized: Ḥuwwārah, pronounced [ħʊwˈwaːra] ⓘ)[3] is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine.

Located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, Huwara is on the main road connecting Nablus southwards to Ramallah and Jerusalem, approximately 4 miles (6 km) from Jacob's Well.

[5][6][7] Israel constructed a bypass road around Huwara to avoid having the Israeli settlers pass through the Palestinian town.

It is bordered by Awarta, Odala and Beita to the east, Za'tara and Yasuf to the south, Jamma'in and Einabus to the west, and Asira al-Qibliya and Burin to the north.

[14] The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal, part of Nablus Sanjak.

[17] In the 1850s the Ottoman rulers withdrew their soldiers from the district (to be used in the Crimean War), and hence open hostility could ensue between different Palestinian factions.

[18] In 1853, Huwara was engaged in a battle with the neighboring villages of Quza and Beita which left ten men and seven women dead.

[20] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Huwarah as a village "of stone and mud at the foot of Gerizim, just over the main road.

Later on, the Israeli forces allowed the civil defence from the adjacent Palestinian village of Burin to extinguish the fire, but only after it had expanded to an even larger area .

[38] The burning and damaging of olive trees is an ongoing-concern of the United Nations,[32] a pattern the New York Times call "price tag" attacks.

[39] The United Nations has reported that by 2013 "...Israeli settlers damaged or destroyed nearly 11,000 olive trees owned by the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The town has many businesses located on the road, which is controlled by the Israeli army to ensure free passage to Jews and Arabs.

Those militant groups claimed the shooting attack was a response to an Israeli army incursion into Nablus that killed eleven Palestinians several days earlier.

[49] Following the attack, Israel's new far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich -- now with new authority over the West Bank[50] -- stated "I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out.