The Reality of Services in the West Bank Refugee Camps

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Awni Fares ◽  
Hassan Kaddoumi
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West

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.

Socio-economic status and chronic disease in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: in and outside refugee camps

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 875-882
Author(s):  
Marie Jonassen ◽  
Amira Shaheen ◽  
Mohammed Duraidi ◽  
Khaled Qalalwa ◽  
Bernard Jeune ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Gaza Strip

Twinning in the Palestinian Population of Jerusalem and the West Bank

1992 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
L. Gedda ◽  
M. Martins ◽  
P. Parisi
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Palestinian Population ◽  
East Jerusalem ◽  
Maternity Clinics

Although it is currently believed that the Palestinian population has relatively high twinning rates, to our knowledge no specific studies on this have yet been conducted. Therefore, and as a first step in our institutional program to develop medical and social care, as well as research programs specifically directed to twins in this area of the world, a number of observations have been conducted in order to gather estimates of twinning rates in the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan. This corresponds to the regions of Judea and Samaria, largely composed of small villages where most of the population lives, as well as a number of more important centers, such as Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron.Although we have, unfortunately, been unable to obtain vital statistics on the entire Palestinian population of the West Bank from the administrative offices of Judea and Samaria, information on total maternities and twin maternities by sex, for the period 1984-1988, was kindly provided by all Arab hospitals and maternity clinics in Jerusalem, and also by the United Nations Refugees World Agencies (UNRWA) with respect to the refugee camps.The population we have studied, therefore, is limited to the Palestinians of East Jerusalem and the West Bank refugee camps, and corresponds to about one-third of the entire Palestinian population of the area. However, it does include both an urban setting (East Jerusalem) as well as a rural one (the refugee camps), and both Moslems and Christians, so it can be safely considered as representative of the entire Palestinian population. As for the period considered, we elected to limit our survey to the five-year period 1984-1988 because the records for then are considered to be more reliable than they had been previously, when little, if anything, was known on statistics, particularly on twin statistics relating to the West Bank population.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic status and chronic disease in Palestinians living in and outside refugee camps in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: an observational study

The Lancet ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 391 ◽  
pp. S20
Author(s):  
Marie Jonassen ◽  
Amira Shaheen ◽  
Mohammed Duraidi ◽  
Khaled Qalalwa ◽  
Bernard Jeune ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
The Gaza Strip

Photos from the Quarter

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Palestinian Refugee

This sample of photos, selected from hundreds viewed by JPS, aims to convey a sense of Palestinian life during this quarter (16 August–15 November 2016). Palestinian refugee camps from northern Syria, to Lebanon, to the West Bank, to Gaza are featured in the images, as are protests about a diversity of topics ranging from hunger strikers, to Israeli settlers, and delayed Palestinian municipal elections.

Cherry Theft under Apartheid: Playback Theatre in the South Hebron Hills of Occupied Palestine

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Rivers
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Playback Theatre

Beginning in December 2011, The Freedom Theatre began using Playback Theatre in villages, refugee camps, and Bedouin communities throughout the West Bank of Occupied Palestine. In the South Hebron Hills, various ethical imperatives came to the fore—including the need to honor the integrity of the narrator’s subjective experience and avoid the replication of oppressive power dynamics—as the group simultaneously attended to the realities of staging stories.

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