Qaffin () is a Palestinian town located northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank. The town is an agricultural town. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, its population was over 8,387 in 2007 and 10,690 in 2017.2007 PCBS census . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). p. 107. The built-up area of the town is 1,000 dunams.Israeli Settlers set fire into 200 dunums of Qaffin Village Lands The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. 2007-06-17.

History Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.Dauphin, 1998, p. 753

In 1265, Qaffin was one of the estates given by Sultan Baibars to his followers after his victory over the Crusaders.Zertal, 2016, pp. 316-317 Half of Qaffin was given to emir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Mu'izzi.Ibn al-Furat, 1971, pp. 81, 210, 249 (map)

Ottoman era In 1517 the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain.

In the 1596 Ottoman tax-records a village named Qaffin appeared part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jenin under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 27 Muslim households. They paid taxes on a number of products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 9,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161. They also state that this Qaffin does not coincide with the borders of nahiya Jinin, but Zertal, 2016, p. 316 have included it in this place.

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then named Kuffin as: "A good sized village on the low hills east of the Plain of Sharon, with a well on the south side. It has rock cut tombs, and a palm grows near the village."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 47

British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kaffin had a population of 721 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30. increasing in the 1931 census to 1,085 Muslims, living in 255 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 70

In the 1945 statistics the population of Qaffin, (including Kh. el Aqqaba and Kh. esh Sheik Meisar) was 1,570 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21 and the land area was 23,755 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76 Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127 while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177

Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Qaffin came under Jordanian rule.

In 1961, the population of Qaffin was 2,457.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 14

Post 1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Qaffin has been under Israeli occupation. On 7 February, Bader Harashi (20) had quarreled with an Israeli soldier at the Separation barrier just outside the village, where he was protesting the Trump Middle East peace plan. According to Palestinian reports, the soldier, apparently a Druze, left, came back some minutes later in a jeep, opened the door and shot Harashi dead. According to the IDF investigation, Harashi was shot dead when observed preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail.Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, 'What the Israeli army does to soldiers who shoot Palestinians,' Haaretz 19 November 2021

Demographics The village's residents came from different places, including Hebron, 'Arura, the Ayalon Valley, and Bedouin communities.Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 345

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External links Welcome To Qaffein Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA , Wikimedia commons