Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine
Siris, Jenin
Siris is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 32 kilometers south of Jenin.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5400 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 6,020 by 2017. Siris has an area of about 12,495 dunums, including 2,500 dunums of state land, about 7,500 dunums planted with olive trees, about 1,500 dunums of land, and the rest used for construction.
How locals move
Getting around Siris, Jenin the local way
- 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. Last edited 2026-07.
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