Fawwar (Arabic: مخيّم الفوّار) is a Palestinian town located six kilometers southwest of Hebron. The refugee camp is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the refugee camp had a population of 6,739 in mid-year 2006.1
The camp was established in 1949 to accompany Palestinian refugees from the Beersheba and Bayt Jibrin and the surrounding area on 350 dunams of land.2
There are two schools in the town: a boys' school and girls' school with roughly 1,050 students each.
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Palestinian refugee1 camp locations and populations as of 2005 |
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 Gaza Strip
986,034 refugees |
 Jordan
1,827,877 refugees |
 Lebanon
404,170 refugees |
 Syria
432,048 refugees |
West Bank
699,817 refugees |
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| Amman New |
29,805 |
| Baqa'a |
80,100 |
| Husn |
19,573 |
| Irbid camp |
23,512 |
| Jabal el-Hussein |
27,674 |
| Jerash |
15,696 |
| Marka |
41,237 |
| Souf |
14,911 |
| Talbieh |
4,041 |
| Zarqa |
17,344 |
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| Beddawi |
15,695 |
| Burj el-Barajneh |
19,526 |
| Burj el-Shemali |
18,134 |
| Dbayeh |
4,223 |
| Dikwaneh |
destroyed |
| Ein el-Hilweh |
44,133 |
| El-Buss |
9,840 |
| Jisr el-Basha |
destroyed |
| Mar Elias |
1,406 |
| Mieh Mieh |
5,078 |
| Nabatieh |
destroyed |
| Nahr el-Bared |
28,358 |
| Rashidieh |
24,679 |
| Sabra |
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| Shatila |
11,998 |
| Tel al-Zaatar |
destroyed |
| Wavel |
7,357 |
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| Dera'a |
5,916 |
| Dera'a (emergency) |
5,536 |
| Hama |
7,597 |
| Homs |
13,825 |
| Jaramana |
5,007 |
| Khan Dunoun |
8,603 |
| Khan Eshieh |
15,731 |
| Neirab |
17,994 |
| Qabr Essit |
16,016 |
| Sbeineh |
19,624 |
| Latakia |
6,534 |
| Yarmouk |
112,550 |
| Ein Al-Tal |
4,329 |
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| Abu Dis |
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| Aida |
3,260 |
| Am'ari |
8,083 |
| Aqabat Jabr |
5,197 |
| al-'Arrub |
9,180 |
| Askar |
13,894 |
| Azaa |
1,828 |
| Balata |
20,681 |
| Deir Ammar |
2,189 |
| Dheisheh |
10,923 |
| Ein Beit al-Ma' |
6,221 |
| Ein as-Sultan |
1,888 |
| Far'a |
6,836 |
| Fawwar |
7,072 |
| Jalazone |
9,284 |
| Jenin |
14,050 |
| Kalandia |
9,188 |
| Nur Shams |
8,179 |
| Shuafat (Shu'fat) |
9,567 |
| Tulkarm |
16,259 |
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1 The UNRWA definition of a "Palestinian refugee" is a person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict ... UNRWA's definition of a refugee also covers the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948." [1]
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