Beit Ta'mir

Beit Ta'mir (

Beit Ta’mir is located 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) south-east of

The village mosque, the Mosque of Omar, has been tentatively dated to 636 CE.^[4]

Beit Ta'mir was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine.

In 1531, records from the Jerusalem Sharia Court mention an individual named 'Ali al-Ta'amari of the Ta'amreh tribe. This record places the Ta'amreh in the vicinity of Bethlehem, marking their involvement in legal matters during the early Ottoman period.^[5] In 1603/4 a Bedouin named Sha‘ala of ‘Arab al-Ta‘āmira sold a beast of burden, originally stolen from Jindas near Lydda to Sālim b. Ghunaym, resident of the village of Dayr al-Sinna in the Kidron Valley near Jerusalem.^[6] These mentions highlight the Ta'amreh's active role within the social and judicial landscape of the region in the 16th and 17th centuries.

In 1596 Beit Ta'mir appeared in the

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Beit Ta'mar, the village of the Ta'amirah, on his travels in the region,^[8] It was also noted as an Arab village, located south of Wadi er-Rahib in the Jerusalem district.^[9]

In 1863, Victor Guérin noted it as an ancient site, inhabited by people of the Ta'amereh tribe.^[10]

An

In 1896 a population list noted that Beit Ta'mir was "half Bedouin".[13]

In the

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Beit Ta’mir came under Jordanian rule.

In 1961, the population of Ta'amira inhabiting the desert of their lands as Nomads (as indicated by the Arabic section of the Jordanian Census, "عرب التعامرة") was 306, excluding other Ta'amira populations such as Za'atara (1,003), Tuqu' (555), and other Ta'amira villages, which would number their total population in thousands.^[18]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Ta'mir has been held under Israeli occupation.

After the