Baqa ash-Sharqiyya

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Baqa ash-Sharqiyya (Arabic: باقه الشرقية‎) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located 16 kilometers northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 4,300 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[1] According to the PCBS 1997 Census, refugees made up 20.4% of the Baqa ash-Sharqiyya's population.^[2] Prior to the Second Intifada, the town consisted of 4,000 dunams, however due to the violence of that uprising, Israel confiscated about 2,000 dunams of land in order to build the Israeli West Bank barrier.^[3]

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Baqa ash-Sharqiyya borders the Green Line and is approximately three kilometers east of its counterpart Baqa al-Gharbiyye which is under Israeli jurisdiction. Both towns formed the town of Baqa, until the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when King Abdullah of Jordan ceded the the captured Wadi Ara region to Israel in exchange for land near Hebron. The separated towns still have close social and economic ties, however this has been reduced due to the completion of the West Bank barrier around the "Baqa enclave" of the Seam Zone.^[4] Baqa ash-Sharqiyya houses the Mother and Child Health Centre (MCH), which is used by the three surrounding Palestinian villages.^[5]

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