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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 6,544 in 2007.^[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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Hebron Governorate Cities Dura · Halhul · Hebron (al-Khalil) · Yatta · ad-Dhahiriya Municipalities Bani Na'im · Beit Awwa · Beit Ula · Beit Ummar · Deir Sammit · Idhna · Kharas · Nuba · Sa'ir · as-Samu · Surif · Taffuh · Tarqumiyah Village Councils Beit 'Amra · Beit Einun · Beit Kahil · Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa · Beit ar-Rush al-Tahta · al-Burj · Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa · Deir al-'Asal al-Tahta · Deir Razih · ad-Duwwara · Hadab al-Fawwar · al-Heila · Hureiz · Imreish · al-Kum · Karma · al-Karmil · Khalet al-Maiyya · Khirbet Safa · Khirbat al-Simia · Khursa · Kuseis · al-Majd · Qalqas · Qila · al-Ramadien · ar-Rihiya · ash-Shuyukh · Shuyukh al-Arrub · as-Sura · at-Tabaqa · Tarrama · al-Uddeisa · Zif Refugee camps al-Arroub · Fawwar

Palestine refugee1 camp locations and populations as of 2005  Gaza Strip 986,034 refugees  Jordan 1,827,877 refugees  Lebanon 404,170 refugees  Syria 432,048 refugees  West Bank 699,817 refugees Al-Shati (Beach) 76,109 Bureij 30,059 Deir al-Balah 20,188 Jabalya 103,646 Khan Yunis 60,662 Maghazi 22,536 Nuseirat 64,233 Rafah 90,638 Canada Camp disbanded Amman New 290,805 Baqa'a 120,100 Husn 19,573 Irbid camp 23,512 Jabal el-Hussein 100,674 Jerash 19,696 Marka 41,237 Souf 16,911 Talbieh 4,041 Zarqa 180,344 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 Shatila 11,998 Tel al-Zaatar destroyed Wavel 7,357 Dera'a 5,916 Dera'a (emergency) 5,536 Hama 7,597 Hims 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 350,550 Ein Al-Tal 4,329 Abu Dis Aida 3,260 Am'ari 8,083 Aqabat Jabr 5,197 al-'Arrub 9,180 Askar 13,894 'Azza 1,828 Balata 29,681 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 25,050 Kalandia 9,188 Nur Shams 8,179 Shuafat (Shu'fat) 9,567 Tulkarm 12,259 1 The UNRWA definition of a "Palestine 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] Palestinian exodus · United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)