Asira al-Qibliya
’Asira al-Qibliya is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located southwest of Nablus.
’Asira al-Qibliya is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 2,935 inhabitants in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Asira al-Qibliya
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Khirbet Jarra'a
Khirbet Jarra'a also Khirbet Jerr'a is an archaeological site located in the West Bank, containing remnants of a medieval settlement.
2.9 km · archaeological site in West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Asira al-Qibliya
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 36 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 77 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km
- Eilat → Asira al-Qibliya293 km · quickest by road, 6h 24m · ₪125–170
- Amman → Asira al-Qibliya73 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · JD5–7
- El Arish → Asira al-Qibliya179 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · E£415–560
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No local-transport research exists yet for Asira al-Qibliya
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Asira al-Qibliya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
- Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
- Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.
From Wikivoyage: Nablus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Asira al-Qibliya is 42 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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