Editing Hebron (section)

== Demographics ==
Hebron has, historically, been an Arab city but a small Jewish community has existed since the 16th century,{{sfn|Yiftachel|Roded|2010|p=193}} encouraged to settle there by the Ottoman authorities following the [[expulsion of Jews from Spain]].{{sfn|Weber|Dubovoy|1995|p=337}} In 1820, it was reported that there were about 1,000 Jews in Hebron.<ref name="Turnerp261">{{harvnb|Turner|1820|p=261}}</ref> In 1838, Hebron had an estimated 1,500 taxable Muslim households, in addition to 41 Jewish tax-payers. Taxpayers consisted here of male heads of households who owned even a very small shop or piece of land. 200 Jews and one Christian household were under 'European protections'. The total population was estimated at 10,000.<ref name="Robinson 88"/> In 1842, it was estimated that about 400 Arab and 120 Jewish families lived in Hebron, the latter having been diminished in number following the destruction of 1834.<ref name="PackardUnion1842">{{cite book|author1=Frederick Adolphus Packard |title=The Union Bible Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8qAaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304|year=1842|publisher=American Sunday-School Union|page=304|quote=About four hundred families of Arabs dwell in Hebron, and about one hundred and twenty families of Jews; the latter having been greatly reduced in number by a bloody battle in 1834, between them and the troops of Ibrahim Pasha.}}</ref> The Jewish community was expelled from the city in 1929 following an anti-Jewish riot. However, since Israel's conquest of the West Bank in 1967, Hebron has been the only West Bank city, other than Jerusalem, to be subject to [[Israeli settlement|Jewish settlement]].{{sfn|Yiftachel|Roded|2010|p=193}}

Hebron had a population of 201,063 [[Palestinians]] in 2017,<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /> and seven hundred Jewish settlers concentrated on the outskirts of its [[Old City of Hebron|Old City]]. Roughly 20% of the city, including 35,000 Palestinians, under Israeli military administration, lives in the region of H2 Hebron.{{sfn|Neuman|2018|p=4}} Hebron is capital of the Hebron Governorate. With adjoining governorate, the city forms a metropolitan area, known as Hebron metropolitan area, with an estimated population of around 782,227 {{as of|2021|lc=on}}.<ref name="PNIC">[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/HebronE.html "Projected Mid -Year Population for Hebron Governorate by Locality 2017-2021"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227145647/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/HebronE.html|date=February 27, 2021}} [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]]. 2021.</ref> It is third largest metropolitan area in Palestine, followed by Gaza and Jerusalem.<ref name="PNIC" />

Hebron is also home to several ethnic minority and foreign diaspora communities.<ref name="KD">{{Cite news |last=Hercz |first=Roger |title=How Palestinians came to reject Kurdish demands for homeland |url=https://www.newarab.com/opinion/how-palestinians-came-reject-kurdish-demands-homeland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241220202931/https://www.newarab.com/opinion/how-palestinians-came-reject-kurdish-demands-homeland |archive-date=December 20, 2024 |access-date=January 1, 2025 |work=The New Arab |language=en-EN |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kurds]] have been living in the city since [[Saladin]]'s [[Battle of Hattin|conquest of Palestine]].<ref name="KD" /> Along with Jerusalem and Gaza, the city is also home to [[Kurds in Palestine|Palestinians of Kurdish descent]].<ref name="KD" /> Nearly a third of the population of Hebron, is considered to be of Kurdish background.<ref name="KD" /> The Kurdish Quarter, known as ''Harat al-Akrad'', still exists today.<ref name="KD" /> Hebron is also home to a small Samaritan community, after Nablus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Denova |first=Rebecca |title=Samaritans |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Samaritans/ |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=World History Encyclopedia |language=en}}</ref>
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