DescriptionFawwar was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Nakba to accommodate Palestinians who had been forcibly displaced. The camp remains a living witness to the Nakba, as do the refugees themselves. The camp was built in 1949 or 1950; named “al-Fawwar” (effervescent) because of the groundwater springs in the surrounding land, including the bubbling spring of al-Fawwar that flows abundantly. The residents of al-Fawwar camp originate from the villages and towns in the south of Palestine that are close to Hebron: Beit Jibrin, Iraq al-Manshiyya, Tal al-Safi, al-Faluja, Dayr al-Nahhas, Beit Muhassar, Ajjur, and Habayeh, and from the al-Dawayima region, where a massacre no less horrific than the one in Deir Yasin took place in 1948. The camp's residents are originally from as many as eighteen regions in Hebron, and some of the camp's neighborhoods are named after the towns from which the refugees were expelled, such as Beit Jibrin, al-Dawayima, and al-Faluja.