Qila, Hebron
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Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority muni Qila ([] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: no text (help)) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-west of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 918 in mid-year 2006.[1] The primary health care facilities for the village are at Qila designated by the Ministry of Health as level 1 and at Beit Ula, Kharas or Nuba where the healthcare is at level 2.[2]
Many scholars identify Qila with the biblical Keilah, mentioned in 1 Samuel.[3]
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- ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Hebron Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ West Bank Health care[permanent dead link]
- ^ David Toshio Tsumura, The First Book of Samuel (NICOT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), 550.
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