Wadi Fukin
Wadi Fukin is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, eight kilometers southwest of Bethlehem in the Bethlehem Governorate.
The village is located on 700 acres of land, between the Green Line and the Israeli West Bank barrier, with the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit on one side and the Israeli town of Tzur Hadasa on the other. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Wadi Fukin had a population of over 1,342 in 2017. The village relies on agriculture as its primary source of income. Israel served eviction orders on the village in September 2014.
Getting around Wadi Fukin the local way
- Get inHitchhiking (described below) can be difficult if you have a suitcase.
- Get inIf you prefer to hitchhike, take the 31 or 32 local buses to the trempiada (see below).
- Get inIf you don't have a car, the fastest, cheapest and easiest travel option is hitchhiking, or in Israeli English, "to catch a tremp".
- Get inThe main hitchhiking hub is in the southern exit from Jerusalem, a place called "Tzomet HaMinharot", or informally the trempiada.
- Get inFrom here you can get another tremp to a specific settlement, although many Israelis consider it unsafe to hitchhike here (in the past, it has been the site of kidnappings and shootings by Palestinians).
- Get inFrom Beit Shemesh, hitchhiking is easiest, but the 409 bus also runs several times a day.
- Get aroundThe only exception is Efrat, which is very long and narrow, so hitchhiking or taking an (infrequent) bus may be more effective.
- Get aroundHitchhiking (from within a settlement) is a safer and faster option.
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