Al-Arroub (camp)
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Al-Arroub (Template:Langx) 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.
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.[1]
According to the UNRWA, in 2005, it had a population of 9,859 registered refugees.[2] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp's population was 8,941 in 2011.[3]
In 2002, two schools were built in the camp: the Arroup Secondary School for boys, and another school for girls.[2]
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
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- ↑ a b Arroub Refugee Camp United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
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- ↑ Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, 'What the Israeli army does to soldiers who shoot Palestinians,' Haaretz 19 November 2021
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External links
- Welcome To al-'Arrub Refugee Camp
- Al 'Arrub Refugee Camp (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- Al 'Arrub Refugee Camp Profile, ARIJ
- Al 'Arrub Refugee Camp aerial photo, ARIJ
- The priorities and needs for development in Al 'Arrub camp based on the community and local authorities’ assessment, ARIJ
- Arroub refugee camp, UNWRA
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