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Story of Siris: an olive village south of Jenin

A village south of Jenin at 400–450 m, with 7,500 of its dunams planted with olives and 6,020 residents in 2017.

Siris is a Palestinian village south of Jenin in the Jenin governorate, about 22 km from the city, at 400 to 450 m above sea level.

It covers about 12,495 dunams, including some 2,500 dunams of state land, 7,500 planted with olives, about 1,500 of other land, and the rest built-up.

The population was 5,400 in mid-2006 and 6,020 by 2017, living mostly from olives, farming and public employment.

Source: Wikipedia (English) — "Siris, Jenin" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siris,_Jenin