Shuyukh al-Arrub () is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-east 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 1,958 inhabitants in 2017. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.

Location Shuyukh al-Arrub is located 11 km north of Hebron City. It is bordered by Kuziba and Irqan Turad to the east, Beit Fajjar to the north, Halhul and Sa'ir to the south and Al 'Arrub Camp to the west.Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ, p. 3

History Roman period See Solomon's Pools for the long el-Arrub aqueduct built by the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate.

Mamluk period In AH 892 (1487 CE), Qansuh Al Yahyawi, the Mamluk viceroy of Damascus, renewed the water supply from Ain al-Arrub (Arrub Spring).Mayer, 1933, p. 180

Late Ottoman period In the 1850s, people from Ash Shuyukh settled the area.Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ, p. 4

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Birket el 'Arrub as: "one of the main reservoirs supplying the aqueduct to Jerusalem. There are two channels, one from Birket Kufin, one from 'Ain Kueiziba, which join [here]."Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP II, pp. 325-6

Jordanian period In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Shuyukh al-Arrub came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 242 inhabitants in Shuyukh Arrub.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 23

1967 and aftermath Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Shuyukh al-Arrub has been under Israeli occupation.

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External links Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village aerial photo, ARIJ The priorities and needs for development in Shuyukh al 'Arrub based on the community and local authorities' assessment, ARIJ