Hitsats

Hitsats(Ge'ez: ሕፃፅ), is a village town in Asgede district in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia located 48 km west of Shire in the Shire - Dedebit - Dansha highway.^[1]

Hitsats ሕፃፅ
Town
Hitsats Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 14.098674124833858°N 37.95993156714216°E / 14.098674124833858; 37.95993156714216
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Tigray
Zone	Northwestern Zone
Woreda	Hitsats
Elevation	1,087.222 m (3,567.001 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	7,120
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)

The town is the administrative center of the Hitsats subdistrict (tabia) and the place of the Hitsats Refugee Camp. Following the genocidal war in Tigray in November 2020, more than 300 civilians were massacred by the Eritrean Defence Forces who entered supporting the Ethiopian National Defence Force.^[2][3]