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Al-Burj
al-Burj is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate, southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,578 in 2007. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
On 25 February 1953, five Arab shepherds were killed and mutilated by Israelis at al-Burj, including a 13-year-old.