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Rammun () is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located twelve kilometers east of Ramallah and three kilometers south of Taybeh. Other nearby towns include Deir Dibwan to the southwest, Beitin to the east and Ein Yabrud to the northeast.
and ancient have been found.Dauphin, 1998, p. 835
Van der Velde (in 1854) assumed that Rammun was the place mentioned in the Bible as Rimmon, Sela Rimmon. The Rock of Rimmon was where the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the battle at Gibeah.van der Velde, 1854, p. 284
It also is suggested to be the town of Remmon (, Remmōn) mentioned in the Onomasticon and in the Map of Madaba, located fifteen miles north of Jerusalem, between Bethel and Jericho.
There are Byzantine, Crusades, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman remains in the town including a mosaic in the town's mosque, an ancient burial cave and sanitary pit. The burial cave dates back to Byzantine times and contained pottery lamps, sandals and cross-shaped medallions. Beside the village is a cave named "The Christian's Cave".
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Rummon as a Muslim village in the District of Beni Salim, east of Jerusalem,Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 125 located "on a naked conical point of the ridge, rising steeply on the North side of the valley, the houses being apparently built in terraces around the hill from the top downwards."Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, pp. 113, 120
The French explorer Victor Guérin first visited the village in 1863, and described it as a village with five hundred inhabitants. He further noted that in the limestone mountain around it were drilled numerous caves, many of which were still used by shepherds and their flocks. Ancient dug into the rock were also found. The houses were partly built with antique materials, including some large blocks cut .Guérin, 1869, pp. 51-53, partly translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 367Guérin, 1874, p. 215
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Rammun had 81 houses and a population of 334, though the population count included men only. The village was described as being in the Beni Salim area.Socin, 1879, p. 158Hartmann, 1883, p. 115 also noted 81 houses
In the 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Rammun as "A village of moderate size, with cisterns and caves, evidently an ancient site. On the north-east is a deep rockcut tank, and south of it a rock-cut tomb. The houses stand on a barren conical point of rock north of a rough valley, and are built in terraces. The site is peculiar, being at the end of a plateau of arable soil extending southwards from Taiyibeh. The view is extensive towards the south-east, but bounded by the Taiyibeh range on the north. There are numerous caves in the rocky sides of the hill called Ashkaf Jiljal, as well as further west (Ashkaf Daud)."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 292
In 1896 the population of Rammun was estimated to be about 705 persons.Schick, 1896, p. 122
In the 1945 statistics the population was 970 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 while the total land area was 30,043 , according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 65 Of this, 2,338 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 7,181 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112 while 61 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 162
In 1961, the population of Rammun was 1,186 persons.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
After the 1995 accords, 1.6% of Rammun’s land was classified as Area A, 27% was classified as Area B, while the remaining 71.4% is classified as Area C. Rammun Village Profile, ARIJ, 2012, p. 18
In 2017, there were 2,405 villagers in Rammun. There are about 7,000 former residents and their descendants living in the diaspora, mainly in the United States. Many in the diaspora have summer homes in the village, though these homes have been frequently broken into.
2012 shootings
In March 2012, a Duvdevan Unit in civilian clothing entered Rammun, reportedly on a night-time training exercise were mistaken for burglars by three brothers of the Shawakhah family. All three brothers were shot multiple times in the confrontation that followed that also involved uniformed IDF soldiers, and Rashad Shawakhah died of his wounds several days later in hospital. Israeli Army Radio initially reported that terrorists had attacked an IDF soldier during a military operation. An IDF soldier who kicked one of the wounded handcuffed men after the shooting was reportedly dismissed shortly after the incident. B'Tselem, who have stated that the undercover unit's operational method and rules of engagement violate international law, requested the army's Criminal Investigations Division to examine the incident. The military advocate general opened an investigation in May 2012.
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(1997). 9789654400077, Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. . ISBN 9789654400077
(1977). 9783920405414, Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. . ISBN 9783920405414
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