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Al-Am'ari

Field	Value
name	al-Am'ari Refugee Camp
translit_lang1	Arabic
translit_lang1_type	Arabic
translit_lang1_info	مخيّم الأمعري
type	Refugee camp
image_skyline	Am'ari Camp 001.jpg
image_caption	al-Am'ari Refugee Camp
pushpin_map	Palestine
pushpin_map_caption	Location of al-Am'ari Refugee Camp within Palestine
coordinates
grid_name	Palestine grid
subdivision_type	State
subdivision_name	State of Palestine
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Ramallah and al-Bireh
established_title	Founded
government_footnotes	tags --
government_type	Refugee camp
unit_pref	dunam
area_total_km2	0.096
area_total_dunam	96
population_footnotes
population_total	4725
population_as_of	2017
population_density_km2	auto

al-Am'ari Refugee Camp () is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 2 kilometers south of Al Bireh in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp had a population of 4,725 inhabitants in 2017. The al-Am'ari camp has 10,377 registered refugees.

History

Refugee in front of his tent in the camp in 1950

The al-Am'ari camp was established in 1949 on 90 dunums within the municipal boundaries of al-Bireh. By 1957, all tents in the camp were replaced with cement block shelters. Like most of the West Bank camps, Amari suffers from overcrowding, poor sewerage and water networks. The camp falls in under Palestinian Authority control. The refugee camp has two schools; the boys' school has 1250 pupils and the girls' school has 970 pupils.

During the First Intifada on 3 April 1989, Muhammad Ismail, aged 20, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Eleven months later the Central Command military advocate concluded that soldiers did not deviate from orders, and the file was closed.

The al-Am'ari camp's football team has won the Palestine football championship several times and has been designated to represent Palestine in regional and international competitions.

Ramzi Aburedwan was raised in Am'ari.

In 2016, the German rapper Kollegah founded the Kollegah educational school, which provides education for the children living in the camp.

Footnotes

References

(February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
[https://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/westbank/amari.html The Camp] administered by the [[United Nations]] subsidiary organ, [[UNRWA]]
Talmor, Ronny (translated by Ralph Mandel) (1990) ''The Use of Firearms - By the Security Forces in the Occupied Territories.'' [[B'Tselem]]. [https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/publication/199007_use_of_firearms_eng.doc download] p. 75,78,81 MK [[Yair Tsaban]] to defence ministers [[Yitzhak Rabin]] & [[Yitzhak Shamir]]
(September 2012). "Reflections of Palestine". [[New Internationalist]].
(8 December 2008). "Palestine's secret oasis". [[New Statesman]].
Bosshaft TV. (2016-11-29). "KOLLEGAH IN PALÄSTINA (Eine StreetCinema Dokumentation)".

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