Wadi Qana
Wadi in the West Bank and Israel
Wadi Qana (Arabic: وادي قانا, romanized: wādī qānā, Hebrew: נחל קנה, romanized: Nahal Qana) is a wadi with an intermittent stream meandering westwards from Huwara, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, Palestine, down to Jaljulia in Israel, from where it flows into the Yarkon River, of which it is a tributary.
Geography and demography
Wadi Qana begins south of Mount Gerizim near the village of Burin in the West Bank. Lined by steep cliffs on either side, the wadi waters flow in a general ENE-WSW direction and reach the Sharon plain near Jaljulia, Israel, where it empties into the Yarkon just west of the Yarkon interchange. West of the central anticline, its surface and sub-aquifers form one of the recharging feeders of the Yarqon Tanninim basin, 1,400 square kilometres (540 mi2) of which lie east of the Green Line. The Wadi Qana area of the West Bank portion of the drainage basin encompasses approximately 229 square kilometres (88 mi2). Harsh rocky limestone and karst terrain is characteristic of the terrain north of its border towards Kafr Thulth.
As of 2018, the population of the area of the wadi in the West Bank has been estimated at 176,580 Palestinians in 56 communities and 58,195 Israelis in 15 settlements.
The expansion of Wadi Qana settlement blocks directly drove the erasure of traditional Palestinian pastoral life in the valley below. The progressive cleansing of the herding community of Uyun Kafr Qari' (also known as 'Arab al-Khuli), situated immediately beneath the cliffs of Ma'ale Shomron within the Wadi Qana basin, was the culmination of a years-long campaign of physical assaults, blocked access to grazing lands and water sources, plundered livestock, and destroyed agricultural property. The final blow fell on 27 February 2026, after settlers from the nearby Dorot outpost threatened the remaining residents and their livestock with violence; fearing for their lives, all remaining families left, completely depopulating the community.
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