Al-Arroub (camp)

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al-Arroub Camp
Refugee Camp
Arabic transcription(s)
 •  Arabic مخيّم العروبة
 •  Latin al-'Arrub (official)
al-Aroub (unofficial)
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Palestinians demonstrating against the occupation in El-Arrub, 2011
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al-Arroub Camp
Location of al-Arroub Camp within Palestine
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al-Arroub Camp
al-Arroub Camp (the West Bank)
Coordinates: 31°37′23.18″N35°08′12.19″E / 31.6231056°N 35.1367194°E / 31.6231056; 35.1367194
State State of Palestine
Governorate Hebron
Government
 • Type Refugee Camp (from 1950)
Area
 • Total
240  dunams (0.24 km2 or 0.09 sq mi)
Population
 (2017) [1]
 • Total
8,941
 • Density37,000/km2 (96,000/sq mi)

Al-Arroub (Arabic : مخيّم العروب, lit.  'Camp al-'Arrub') is a Palestinian refugee camp located adjacent to the town of Shuyukh al-Arrub in the southern West Bank along the Hebron-Jerusalem road, in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. Al-Arroub is 15 kilometers south of Bethlehem, with a total land area of 240 dunums.

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the camp has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 3,647. [2]

According to the UNRWA, in 2005, it had a population of 9,859 registered refugees. [3] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp's population was 8,941 in 2011. [1]

In 2002, two schools were built in the camp: the Arroup Secondary School for boys, and another school for girls. [3]

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Al-Arroub before 1948, supplying water to Jerusalem

Incidents

On 11 November 2019, Omar Badawi (22) was shot dead by Israeli troops in a nearby alley as he stepped out of his house with a towel to dowse a small fire nearby set off by a Molotov cocktail thrown by youths in the direction of the soldiers who had entered the camp. A video filmed the event. An IDF investigation as of November 2021 has yet to come to a conclusion. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ↑ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute . Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  3. 1 2 Arroub Refugee Camp United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
  4. ↑ Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, 'What the Israeli army does to soldiers who shoot Palestinians,' Haaretz 19 November 2021


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