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Al-Arroub (camp)

al-Arroub is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the southern West Bank along the Hebron-Jerusalem road in the Hebron Governorate. al-Arroub is 15 kilometers south of Bethlehem, with a total land area is 350 dunums.

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the camp has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 3,647.

According to the UNRWA, in 2005, it had a population of 9,859 registered refugees. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the camp's population is 10,487 in 2016.

In 2002, two schools were built in the camp: the Arroup Secondary school for boys and the other for girls.