Jabalia Camp - UNRWA
Jabalia is the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight refugee camps. It is located north of Gaza City, close to a village of the same name. After the 1948 War, refugees settled in the camp, most having fled from villages in southern Palestine. Today, the camp covers an area of only 1.4 square kilometers. 119,540 Palestine Refugees are registered ...
Where We Work - UNRWA
Eight recognized Palestine Refugee camps span the Gaza Strip and have some of the highest population densities in the world. Operating through over 13,000 staff in over 300 installations across the besieged coastal enclave, UNRWA delivers education, health and mental health care, relief and social services, microcredit and emergency assistance ...
Palestine refugees - UNRWA
Nearly one-third of the registered Palestine refugees, more than 1.5 million individuals, live in 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Beach camp - UNRWA
Oct 1, 2023 · Beach refugee camp is the third largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps, and one of the most crowded. Locally known as ‘Shati’, the camp is on the Mediterranean coast in the Gaza City area. 95,803 Palestine Refugees are registered with UNRWA in Beach camp.
Rafah camp - UNRWA
Oct 1, 2023 · Rafah refugee camp, established in 1949, is located south of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border. Shortly after Rafah camp was created, thousands of refugees moved from the camp to a nearby housing project at Tel El-Sultan, making the camp almost indistinguishable from the adjacent city.
Maghazi camp - UNRWA
Oct 1, 2023 · Al-Maghazi refugee camp is located in the centre of the Gaza Strip, south of Bureij camp. It was established in 1949 and is one of the smaller camps in Gaza, both in terms of size and population.
Nuseirat camp - UNRWA
Oct 1, 2023 · Nuseirat refugee camp is a busy and crowded camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, like Bureij and Maghazi camps. Nuseirat, which takes its name from a local Bedouin tribe, now accommodates 88,204 Palestine Refugees registered with UNRWA.
Bureij camp - UNRWA
Oct 1, 2023 · Bureij refugee camp is a comparatively small refugee camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip. The camp is located near Maghazi and Nuseirat refugee camps. Bureij camp was built in the 1950s to house refugees who, until then, had lived in British army barracks and tents.
Jerash Camp - UNRWA
Jerash camp was set up as an ‘emergency’ camp in 1968 for 11,500 Palestine refugees and displaced persons who were displaced from the Gaza Strip as a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. It is known locally as Gaza camp.
UNRWA Situation Report #145 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the …
Strikes by Israeli Security Forces (ISF) continue, with aerial, land and maritime bombardments across the Gaza Strip, resulting in civilian casualties and the destruction of residential structures and public infrastructure.