Dajan had a population of 487; all Muslims, increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 548 Muslims, in a total of 118 houses. In the 1945 statistics, the population (including Beit Dajan Jiflik and Khirbat Furush) was 750, all Muslims, with a total of 44,076 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 6 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 2,789 for plantations or irrigated land, 17,625 for cereals, while 48 dunams were built-up land. Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Beit Dajan came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 926 inhabitants in Beit Dajan. 1967 and aftermath Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Dajan came under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 38% of the village land is defined as being in Area B, while the remaining 62% is Area C. Israel has confiscated 199 dunams of village land for two Israeli settlements; Hamra and Mekhora. In March, 2021, a local imam, Atef Hanaisheh, was shot in the head and killed by the Israeli military. The killing occurred during a protest in the village against a nearby Israeli unauthorized settler outpost. References Bibliography (p. 847) External links Welcome to Bayt Dajan Beit Dajan, Welcome to Palestine Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA, Wikimedia commons Beit Dajan village profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ Beit Dajan, aerial photo, ARIJ Beit Dajan Beit Dajan Nablus Governorate Villages in the West Bank Municipalities of the State of Palestine Ancient Samaritan settlements