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Jund Filastin (, " the military district of Palestine ") was one of several districts of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphate province of Bilad al-Sham ( Syria ), organized soon after the Muslim conquest of Syria in the mid 7th-century.

According to al-Biladhuri, the main towns of the district, following its conquest by the Rashidun Caliphate, were Gaza, Sebastiya, Nablus, Caesarea, Ludd, Yibna, Imwas, Jaffa, Rafah, and Bayt Jibrin.

At first, under the early Umayyad caliphs, Ludd served as the district capital.

After the caliph Suleiman ibn Abd al-Malik founded the nearby city of Ramla, he designated it the capital, and most of Ludd's inhabitants were forced to settle there.

In the 9th-century, during Abbasid rule, Jund Filastin was the most fertile of Syria's districts, and contained at least twenty mosques, despite its small size.