Impact of housing conditions on the health of the people at al-Ama'ri refugee camp in the West Bank of Palestine

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issam A Al-Khatib ◽  
Ahmad Ju'ba ◽  
Nadine Kamal ◽  
Nihad Hamed ◽  
Nuha Hmeidan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
The West ◽  
The People

Sensory Perceptual Experience in Balata Refugee Camp

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Shahd Adnan M. Qzeih ◽  
Rafooneh Mokhtarshahi Sani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The World

Wars and conflicts have caused millions of people to seek asylum outside their homelands and the issue of refugee camps has become a pressing subject in international policy discussions. Conflicts continue to escalate in different parts of the world, especially in Middle Eastern countries. In 1948, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict forced displacement of many Palestinian people. The resulting camps have developed into cluster camp shelters of three to four stories in the West Bank, Gaza, and other regions around historical Palestine; some are perceived to be like gated communities. Being self-sufficient environments, refugee camps have rarely been approached from the perspective of urban psychology. This research deals with sensory perceptual analysis of Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank of Palestinian Territories. Balata is situated in Nablus and has raised four generations of refugees since its establishment. In order to explore the spatial characteristics of such specific environmental experiences, the research adopted a mixed-method approach – systematically evaluating the related literature on sensory perceptual spaces and applying content analysis methods. The study modified the sensory slider tool of Malnar and Vodvarka according to the framework matrix based on the content analysis. Moreover, the case study analysis consisted of observation of the chosen area and 30 in-depth interviews with refugees who were forced out of their homes and settled in the camp as well as some who were born in the camp. The research results show that investigating what camp residents perceive of the five senses can capture meaningful sensory perceptual experiences and can generate a holistic mental image of the refugee camp. Particularly, perceptions of the built environment reflect the difficulty of life experiences. The study concludes that the characteristics of camps in this seventy-year-old conflict environment may not be found in other parts of the world.

Environmental Aspects of the Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 374-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moshe Hirsh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Basic Fact ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
The West ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
The Gaza Strip

Environmental resources and hazards do not recognize political boundaries. The basic fact that the people of Israel and of the new Palestinian entity in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip share several important natural resources compels the parties to co-operate in the protection of these resources. Neither party is solely able to manage these essential resources (e.g., water) and any attempt to act unilaterally in this sphere might harm the interests of both parties. A quick reading of the Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area (“the Cairo Agreement”) shows that the parties were indeed aware of this, and the agreement includes numerous environmental provisions in various sections.

scholarly journals Israel and the Occupied Territories

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (S1) ◽  
pp. 79-81
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The West ◽  
Occupied Territory ◽  
The People ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Arab States ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
East Jerusalem

In the conflict between Israel and the Arab states, the ICRC considers that the conditions for the application of the Fourth Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from settling its civilians in the occupied territory, destroying the homes of the people living there or expelling them from it, are fulfilled in all of the occupied territories (the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Golan and East Jerusalem). The principles that the rights of persons who are in occupied territory are inviolable is expressed in Article 47 of the Fourth Convention.

Multilocality and the Politics of Space in Protracted Exile

Transfers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Politics Of Space

This article employs the concept of multilocality to analyze the politics of space under the condition of protracted encampment. Rather than adopting a common synchronic approach to how refugees relate to space, the theoretical lens of multilocality grasps the diachronic dimension of protracted camps understood as places that encompass multiple attachments across time and space: the remembered and imagined places of origin, sites of residence in exile, and future geographies of hope or anticipation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in al-Am’ari, a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, I analyze multilocality as a political practice whereby local residents and organizations nurture the refugee identity of their communities, resist the permanence of protracted exile, and manifest the necessity for political change.

Occupation, Sight, Landscape: Visibility and the Normalization of Israeli Settlements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Zahora
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Stark Contrast

Abstract This article contributes toward the understanding of social and political mechanisms that work to normalize and naturalize contested political conditions on the part of privileged segments of the public. I engage these issues via an ethnographic study of Israel's so-called non-ideological settlements in the occupied West Bank, which attract Israelis due to socioeconomic advantages rather than a nationalistic and/or religious appeal. Nonetheless, the settlers’ suburban experiences are in stark contrast to the geopolitical status of their communities as well as the local and international resistance they generate. I draw empirically on interviews and observations conducted in the settlement of Ariel to make sense of this dynamic. Utilizing insights from critical investigations of visuality and landscape, I argue that the normalization of everyday life in the settlements is achieved through the operation of a particular scopic regime linked to the landscape formations in the West Bank. Employing these concepts to investigate the everyday politics of seeing, I show how they channel the settlers’ sight in a way that makes the Israeli rule seem uncontested, naturalized, and even aesthetic in three registers: the depth of visual field, the surroundings, and the people who inhabit the settlements’ landscape.

The People Fail to Decide: The Israeli General Election of 1988

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
David Capitanchik
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
General Election ◽  
Major Determinant ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The West ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The People ◽  
West Bank And Gaza

BEFORE THE ISRAELI GENERAL ELECTION OF 1988, IT HAD BEEN confidently forecast that the major determinant of the outcome would be the year-long Palestinian uprising in the Administered Territories — the so-called intifada — and the future of the peace process. It was widely believed that the traumatic events in the West Bank and Gaza would displace from the attention of the electorate the more pressing issues, both domestic and foreign, which had been virtually frozen owing to the inability of the critically-divided ‘national unity government’ to agree on any positive course of action.

Pilgrims, Protest Tourists, and Palestinians: Abu Dis, Bethlehem, Dheisheh Camp

2020 ◽  
pp. 016059762096475
Author(s):  
Philip Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Palestinian Territory ◽  
Permanent Residents

The central idea of this essay is that nonindigenous vernacular image-making by protest tourists on the Palestinian side of the Israeli separation barrier and elsewhere holds little meaning for the permanent residents beyond a relatively minor revenue stream. Prior to making this argument, I provide a short historical background about the use of vernacular messages in the occupied Palestinian territory known as the West Bank. I then focus on images of martyrs or shaheed and then on separation barrier images by protest tourists mostly in Bethlehem. The final sections are about two artists from the Dheisheh Palestinian Refugee Camp and the images they create within the camp. A coda of sorts discusses a mural within the camp that is venerated by the residents as opposed to the overpainting and defacement that takes place on the separation barrier. Within this final section and elsewhere within this essay, the meaning of sumood is explicated. As a note, protest tourists are defined here not as anti-tourism protesters but rather as tourists whose intent is protest Israeli policies regarding Palestinians.

scholarly journals Sero Prevalence of COVID-19 in Palestine in 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izzat Rayan ◽  
Sharif E. Qaddomi ◽  
Osama Najjar ◽  
Saleh Abbas ◽  
Karmel Mousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Serological Survey ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Urban Rural

COVID-19 affected different countries differently. The WHO/ PNIPH, WHO/EMRO, and the Palestinian MoH, with assistance from the PCBS carried out a serological survey in the occupied Palestinian Territories in order to estimate the actual number of COVID-19 infection by the end of December 2020. A sample stratified by Region, district, and by type (urban, rural, and refugee camp), and accounting for gender, was taken from Gaza and the West Bank. The results show that 39% of the oPt (38% of the West Bank and 40% of Gaza), had been infected with COVID-19 by the end of December, almost 10 times the number that was detected by targeted Rt-PCR testing.

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