Silwad Camp
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Silwad Camp (Arabic: مخيم سلواد), is a
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The Silwad camp sits on ten acres of land that belonged to the Jordanian Government, which had purchased it from the residents of the town of Silwad in 1952 to establish a military post. The camp is now home to 70 families, displaced in 1948 from Jaffa, Al-Lod and Al-Ramleh.
Utilities
The refugees came to the new land and new homes, which although new, were small and humble and lacked water, electricity and basic services. There is no party tending to the needs of the camp residents, with the exception of sanitation, which was handled by the Silwad Municipality in coordination with the Palestinian National Authority. However, the municipality suddenly stopped serving the camp, demanding that the residents pay fees for the service. The streets of the camp were denied lighting because the residents failed to pay their electricity bills.
Ibrahim Siraj, president of the Camp Committee, was the first refugee to set foot in the camp. He came from the Nuseirat camp, to which he had moved in 1948 after being displaced from the village of Al-Maghar. He said about the transfer, "Israeli authorities had stripped us of our IDs and replaced them with West Bank IDs. Some of us were transported in trucks and others were simply given the address. Not all the refugees settled in the camp; some went to Jordan or Jericho or Ramallah, where they lived near other refugee camps in order to remain close to their families.
The refugees worked in construction. There was one
Rental contracts
Israeli authorities used water and power supplies as a means to pressure the residents, asking the residents to join the village unions in the 1980s and cutting off water and power supplies when they refused to cooperate with the military ruler. The public committee was then founded to solve the problems facing the residents. The committee founded and operating covertly was connected with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Transfer complex
The Silwad
References
- ^ Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.