Khan al-Shih camp

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Khan al-Shih camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located next to the ancient ruins of Khan al-Shih, 27 kilometers southwest of Damascus, which was historically a stopping point for trade convoys between Damascus and the southwest.^[1]

The camp provided shelter to the first refugees from Palestine when the 1948 Palestine War began. The camp was established in 1949 on an area of land of 0.69 square kilometers. Most of the refugees in the camp are from the northern parts of Palestine, and many today have good degrees of education and work as teachers or as civil servants. The others work as farmers on Syrian-owned land and handicraft workers in nearby workshops.The camp has a high school, two primary and preparatory schools and a health clinic run by UNRWA.