Al-Arroub (camp)

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.

al-Arroub Camp
Refugee Camp
Arabic transcription(s)
• Arabic	مخيّم العروبة
• Latin	al-'Arrub (official) al-Aroub (unofficial)
Palestinians demonstrating against the occupation in El-Arrub, 2011
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Coordinates: 31°37′23.18″N 35°08′12.19″E
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
• Density	37,000/km2 (96,000/sq mi)

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]

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]