This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Dheisheh (Arabic: مخيم الدهيشة) is a Palestinian refugee camp located just south of Bethlehem in the West Bank.

[2] There are several alternative transliterations of the Arabic name "دهيشة", including "Deheishe", "Deheisheh", "Duheisha", "Dheisha", and "Dhaisha".

[7] [8] The Dheisheh refugee camp was established after the 1948 Palestine war, to accommodate those displaced in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.

Towards the end of the 1950s the UNRWA started to build very simple living units: A single room of 10 square metres, 10 cm thick and 2.45 m high walls, a steel roof and a floor made of rough concrete.

In March the following year Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote to MK Yair Tsaban stating that the incident occurred when an army patrol tried to disperse a curfew-breaking riot; they ran out of rubber bullets and the sergeant in command fired two plastic bullets, "deviating from operational orders", one of which killed the girl.

The Military Advocate General recommended that the battalion commander "give him a severe dressing down for deviating from orders."

[15] Current population figures for Dheisheh are subject to disagreement between the respective census studies of the Palestinian National Authority and UNRWA.

[16] In January 2009, the Population, Housing, and Establishment Census 2007, undertaken by the same Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority, reported the following statistics for the year 2007:[8] Of note is the absence of approximately 700 persons from the estimated 2006 figure compared to the 2007 reported figure.

Based on the UNRWA statistics, Dheisheh is the fourth largest refugee camp in the West Bank, behind Balata, Tulkarm, and Askar (in that order).

By comparison, Dheisheh camp would be the sixth largest after Balata, Askar, Tulkarm, Jenin, and Qalandiya (in that order), based on the figures reported by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

The Future Vision Society for the Development of the Abilities (AREEN) is another organization located in Dheishe camp.