Jiljilyya

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Jiljilyya (Arabic: جلجليّا) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,600 akçe.

[4] In 1838 Edward Robinson noted Jiljilia on his travels in the region, and connected it with ancient Gilgal.

[7] He further noted it as a Muslim village, located in the Beni Zeid district, north of Jerusalem.

[10][11] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jiljilia as: "A large village on the top of a high hill, with a well to the south, and a few olives.

The autopsy found that he had died from “a stress-induced heart attack probably brought on by being bound and gagged and held in a cold construction site.”[22][23] In February, the US State Department said it wanted a “criminal investigation” into his death.