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Surif (Arabic: صوريف) is a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate located 25km northwest of the city of Hebron. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Surif had a population of 13,400 in mid-year 2006. The population is entirely Muslim.
Most of the town's 15,000 dunams is is used for agriculture, in particular, olives, wheat and barley.[1] There are seven mosques and four schools located in its vicinity. Many of Surif's youth joined Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni's Army of the Holy War against the British and later the Haganah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[2]
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