Al-Arroub (camp)

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al-Arroub Camp
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic مخيّم العروبة
 • Also spelled al-'Arrub (official)
al-Aroub (unofficial)
al-Arroub Camp is located in the Palestinian territories
al-Arroub Camp
al-Arroub Camp
Location of al-Arroub Camp within the Palestinian Territories
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Governorate Hebron
Government
 • Type Refugee Camp (from 1950)
Area
 • Jurisdiction 350 dunams (0.4 km2 or 0.2 sq mi)
Population (2016)
 • Jurisdiction 10,487

al-Arroub (Arabic: مخيّم العروب‎‎) is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the southern West Bank along the Hebron-Jerusalem road in the Hebron Governorate. It is 15 kilometers south of Bethlehem. The camp's total land area is 350 dunums and according to the UNRWA, in 2005, it had a population of 9,859 registered refugees.[1] However, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp's population is 10,487 in 2016.[2] In 2002, two schools were built in the camp: the Arroup Secondary school for boys and the other for girls.[1]

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Al-Arroub before 1948. Supplying water to Jerusalem.

Arroup Secondary school

Arroup Secondary School is a boys' secondary school in the Al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron Governorate. A school was rented in the Arroup refugee camp lands, in a top of a mountain to remark the 1st secondary school for boys in the camp, it, this school is basically a floor rented house, because suppliers couldn't fund to build a new school for students.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Arroub Refugee Camp United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
  2. 'Localities in Hebron Governorate by Type of Locality and Population Estimates, 2007-2016 ,' Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2016.

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