Far'a

Far'a Camp
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	مخيّم الفارعة
• Also spelled	al-Fari'ah (official) Faraa (unofficial)
Far'a Camp Location of Far'a Camp within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 32°17′38.35″N 35°20′39.74″E / 32.2939861°N 35.3443722°E / 32.2939861; 35.3443722Coordinates: 32°17′38.35″N 35°20′39.74″E / 32.2939861°N 35.3443722°E / 32.2939861; 35.3443722
Governorate	Tubas
Government
• Type	Refugee Camp (from 1949)
Area
• Jurisdiction	225 dunams (2.3 km2 or 0.9 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	5,750
Name meaning	"Branches"

Far'a or al-Fari'ah (Arabic: مخيّم الفارعة‎) is a Palestinian refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley in the northwestern West Bank, located 12 kilometers south of Jenin and 2 kilometers south of Tubas, three kilometers northwest of Tammun and 17 kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp had a population of 5,750 refugees in 2006,^[1] however, the UNRWA has recorded a population of 7,244 registered refugees.^[2]

Far'a was established in 1949 following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on 255 dunams of land. It is one of the few camps in the West Bank that is supplied water by the nearby spring of Far'a, from which the camp receives its name. The camp was under Jordanian and Israeli occupation until November 1998, when it came under the complete control of the Palestinian National Authority, as a result of the Wye River Memorandum.^[2]

Most of the camp's labor force works in agriculture and some work in construction in the Israeli settlements of the Jordan Valley. In 1996, the UNRWA built two schools in Far'a with financial contributions from the European Union and by 2005 there were 1,794 pupils. In 2005, 863 families depended on UN food rations.^[2]

See also

• Ras al-Far'a town
• Wadi al-Far'a village
• Wadi al-Far'a (river)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Far'a.

• El Far'a Camp (Fact Sheet), The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. February, 2006
• El Far'a Camp Profile, The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. February, 2006
• Far'a, articles from UNRWA

Tubas Governorate Cities Tubas (Ibziq • Kashda • ath-Thughrah) Municipalities 'Aqqaba Tammun Villages Aqabah Bardala al-Bikai'a Ein al-Beida (al-Farisiya • Khirbet al-Malih) Kardala Khirbet ar-Ras al-Ahmar Ras al-Far'a Salhab Tayasir Wadi al-Far'a Yarza Refugee camps Far'a

Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015[1]  Gaza Strip 518,000 UNRWA refugees  West Bank 188,150 UNRWA refugees  Syria 319,958 UNRWA refugees  Lebanon 188,850 UNRWA refugees  Jordan 355,500 UNRWA refugees Al-Shati (Beach camp) 87,000 Bureij 34,000 Deir al-Balah 21,000 Jabalia 110,000 Khan Yunis 72,000 Maghazi 24,000 Nuseirat 66,000 Rafah 104,000 Canada Camp closed Aqabat Jaber 6,400 Ein as-Sultan 1,900 Far'a 7,600 Fawwar 8,000 Jalazone 11,000 Kalandia 11,000 Am'ari 10,500 Deir 'Ammar 2,400 Dheisheh 13,000 Aida 4,700 Al-Arroub 10,400 Askar 15,900 Balata 23,600 'Azza (Beit Jibrin) 1,000 Ein Beit al-Ma' (Camp No. 1) 6,750 Tulkarm camp 18,000 Nur Shams 9,000 Jenin camp 16,000 Shuafat camp 11,000 Silwad Sbeineh 22,600 Khan Eshieh 20,000 Neirab 20,500 Homs 22,000 Jaramana camp 18,658 Daraa camp 10,000 Hama camp 8,000 Khan Dannun 10,000 Qabr Essit 23,700 Unofficial camps Ein Al-Tal 6,000 Latakia Camp 10,000 Yarmouk 148,500 Bourj el-Barajneh 17,945 Ain al-Hilweh 54,116 El Buss 11,254 Nahr al-Bared 5,857 Shatila 9,842 Wavel 8,806 Mar Elias 662 Mieh Mieh 5,250 Beddawi 16,500 Burj el-Shemali 22,789 Dbayeh camp 4,351 Rashidieh 31,478 Zarqa camp 20,000 Jabal el-Hussein 29,000 Amman New Camp (Wihdat) 51,500 Souf 20,000 Baqa'a 104,000 Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp) 22,000 Irbid camp 25,000 Jerash camp 24,000 Marka 53,000 Talbieh 7,000

1. ↑ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.