Al-Arroub (camp)

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.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.

[3] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp's population was 8,941 in 2011.

[3] 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.

Al-Arroub before 1948, supplying water to Jerusalem