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 Dheisheh refugee camp, West Bank, Palestine

Dheisheh Refugee Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located just south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Dheisheh was established in 1949 on 0.31 square kilometers of land leased from the Jordanian government.[1] The camp was established as a temporary refuge for 3,400 Palestinians from 45 villages west of Jerusalem and Hebron who fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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Tours included Dheisheh, a refugee camp in the West Bank. “I don't think anyone came back with a positive, honestly, view of how the state of Israel is handling things,” he says. Jacobson stresses that there was no intention of deceiving students. “I don't go around with caveats, 'This is brought to you by…,'” ...
Faraj had grown up in the Dheisheh refugee camp, in the West Bank. His father had been killed by the Israel Defense Forces during the second intifada (2000-05), and his entire family had joined the Forum for Bereaved Parents (The Parents' Circle), bringing together Israelis and Palestinians who have lost ...

I'd like to explore the Kingdom more, and come back here again for further exploration,” he told Arab News. Capuano, who is noted for his architectural work, was commissioned to photograph Italy's 44 World Heritage sites in 2010, and in 2016 he documented the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee camp near ...
DHEISHEH, Occupied West Bank - Raed al-Salhi had big plans. Over the summer, the 21-year-old resident of al-Dheisheh was finalising a project he and several friends had come up with to set up a number of small libraries across the Bethlehem-area refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank.
Raed al-Salhi, who died on Sunday, was critically injured on August 9 when Israeli troops tried to arrest him during a pre-dawn raid at the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. Issa Qaraqe, who leads the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs, called Salhi's death a "war crime" as he claimed the ...

Early morning in Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, West Bank, Israeli occupying forces shot with live ammunition during clashes injuring two Palestinian youths before arresting them. According to WAFA the Palestinian security source said the clashes broke out after the Israeli military broke in to the ...
In a vaguely Post-Impressionist interior by Ayed Arafah, a painter from the Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem, a cat looks up mischievously from an unraveled roll of toilet paper. A series of boldly colored portraits by the gallery's youngest painter, 18-year-old Malak Mattar, recall the stylistic primitivism ...

The first US museum dedicated to Palestinian art and the story of the Palestinian people will open its doors in Woodbridge, Connecticut, on April 22. The Palestine Museum US will be a small but vital platform for artists of Palestinian descent, and a showcase for the stateless nation's rich culture and ...
Israeli forces raided Dheisheh refugee camp to the south of Bethlehem, detained a Palestinian after they raided his home and ransacked it, beat two people and seized surveillance cameras. From the northern governorates of Qalqilya and Jenin, Israeli forces detained a youth from Kufr Qaddoum after ...
Shoruq provides an audio training and production centre for Palestinian refugees in Dheisheh refugee camp and beyond. Its media programme provides children with educational workshops and professional training to increase awareness of their rights and give them the tools to express themselves to the ...
A year ago this month, a group of young dancers and rappers from Dheisheh refugee camp in occupied West Bank were on tour, bringing music, hip-hop and dabkeh folk dance to audiences across the United States. The young Palestinians were on a mission to make the world aware of their plight through ...
It started at the Church of Nativity taking the runners through the city, the two refugee camps of Aida and Dheisheh and along the Israeli apartheid wall, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004. It included four tracks; the full 42-kilometer race, a 21-kilometer race, a 10-kilometer race and ...


 

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