Fawwar, Hebron

Fawwar (Arabic: مخيّم الفوّار) is a Palestinian town and refugee camp in the Hebron Governorate, located six kilometers southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the camp had a population of 6,544 in 2007.[1]

Fawwar
Refugee Camp
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicمخيّم الفوّار
Fawwar
Fawwar
Fawwar is located in State of Palestine
Fawwar
Fawwar
Location of Fawwar within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°28′46″N 35°03′53″E
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron
Government
 • TypeRefugee Camp
Area
 • Total270 dunams (0.27 km2 or 0.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)
 • Total8,642
 • Density32,000/km2 (83,000/sq mi)

Fawwar Camp was established in 1949 to accommodate Palestinian refugees from Beersheba and Bayt Jibrin and the surrounding area on 350 dunams of land. There are two schools in the town: a boys' school and girls' school with roughly 1,050 students each.[2]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Fawwar has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 2,233.[3]

Incidents
  • On 12 May 2021 Hussein Titi (28), after an Israeli raid on the village led to the arrest of his neighbor, was shot dead when he went up to the roof of his house and peeked out to see what was happening.[4]
  • On 13 May 13, 2020 Zeid Qaysiyah (17) was shot dead, with a bullet to his face, by a sniper posted over a 100 metres away, while Qaysiyah was watching, together with his nieces, an Israeli raid on the village conducted by the elite Israeli Duvdevan unit, which sought to arrest a mentally disabled local youth for comments he had made on Facebook.[4]

References
  1. 2007 PCBS Census Archived December 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.
  2. Fawwar Refugee Camp UNRWA. 31 March 2005.
  3. 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.
  4. Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, 'What the Israeli army does to soldiers who shoot Palestinians,' Haaretz 19 November 2021


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