Salfit

Salfit (Arabic:سلفيت‎), also spelled Salfeet, is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank. Salfit is located at an altitude of 570 meters (1,870 ft) adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Salfit had a population of 8,796 in 2007. It has been administered by the Palestinian Authority since the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has served as the administrative seat of the Salfit Governorate since then.