’Azza
'Azza also known as Beit Jibrin Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Bethlehem Governorate located within the city of Bethlehem. It is the smallest of the 59 Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and nearby countries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Refugee camp
- Description: Palestinian refugee camp in Bethlehem Governorate
- Also known as: “‘Azza”, “Beit Jibrin Camp”, and “Mukhayyam Bayt Jibrīn”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Embassy of the United States and Har Hamor Yeshiva.
Embassy of the United States
Government office
Photo: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, CC BY 2.0.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Jerusalem is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the State of Israel. It is located in Talpiot, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem. Embassy of the United States is situated 2 km northwest of ’Azza.
Har Hamor Yeshiva
Synagogue
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Yeshivat Har Hamor; is a Religious Zionist yeshiva in Har Homa, Jerusalem, founded in 1997 as an offshoot of Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav. The president of the yeshiva is Rabbi Zvi Thau, and the Rosh yeshiva - head of the yeshiva - is Rabbi Amiel Sternberg. Har Hamor Yeshiva is situated 1½ km southwest of ’Azza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Umm Tuba and Sur Baher.
Umm Tuba
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Umm Tuba is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem part of Sur Baher; it is northeast of Har Homa and Bethlehem, and southeast of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
Sur Baher
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sur Baher, also Tsur Baher, is a Palestinian neighborhood on the southeastern outskirts of East Jerusalem. It is located east of Ramat Rachel and northeast of Har Homa. In 2006, Sur Baher had a population of 15,000.
Homat Shmuel
Suburb
Har Homa, officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim", which is the Arabic name of the hill.
’Azza
- Categories: refugee camp and Palestinian refugee camp
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“’Azza” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مخيم العزة”
- Arabic: “مخيم بيت جبرين”
- Catalan: “‘Azza”
- Catalan: “’Azza”
- Dutch: “‘Azza”
- French: “Beit Jibrin”
- Hebrew: “אל-עזה”
- Indonesian: “‘Azza”
- Indonesian: “’Azza”
- Japanese: “アッザ・キャンプ”
- Malay: “azza”
- Polish: “Muchajjam al-Azza”
- Spanish: “‘Azza”
- Spanish: “’Azza”
- Uzbek: “Azza”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “’Azza”. Photo: TrickyH, CC BY-SA 4.0.