Palestinian refugee camps

Clickable map of the Palestinian refugee camps

Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War or in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967, and their patrilineal descendants.^[1] There are 68 Palestinian refugee camps, 58 official and 10 unofficial,^[2] ten of which were established after the Six-Day War while the others were established in 1948 to 1950s.

Whilst only a third of registered Palestinian refugees live within the boundaries of the refugee camps,^[3] Palestinian refugees "show extraordinary social and economic integration outside the camps and informal gatherings".^[4] Many Palestinian refugees live in adjacent or nearby "gatherings", defined as "the geographic area, outside the official camps, which is home to a minimum 15 Palestinian households."^[5]

The total number of registered Palestine refugees has grown from 750,000 in 1950 to around 5 million in 2013.^[6]

^ UNWRA, Palestine refugees
^ UNRWA Annual Operational report 2019 for the Reporting period 01 January – 31 December 2019, pages 168-169, "Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Statistics"
^ Cite error: The named reference UNWRA2004table3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference Hanafi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ BADIL Refugee Survey 2016-18, page 29, 34, 35
^ "Who We Are - UNRWA". UNRWA. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

[1] UNWRA, Palestine refugees

[UNRWA2019-2] UNRWA Annual Operational report 2019 for the Reporting period 01 January – 31 December 2019, pages 168-169, "Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Statistics"

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[Hanafi-4] Cite error: The named reference Hanafi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] BADIL Refugee Survey 2016-18, page 29, 34, 35

[WhoWeAre-6] "Who We Are - UNRWA". UNRWA. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

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