Al-Majd, Hebron


al-Majd is a Palestinian village located eighteen kilometers south-west of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

Ottoman era

In 1863, Victor Guérin called it Khirbet Medjed.
In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Palestine found here "Caves, cisterns, and pillar shafts; a ruined chapel seems to have stood there".

1948-1967

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Majd came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 466 inhabitants in Al-Majd.

1967-present

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Majd has been under Israeli occupation.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,925 in 2007.