There are ten refugee camps in Jordan.
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o 1955, Amman New Camp (Wihdat), 49,805
o 1968, Baqa'a, 80,100
o 1968, Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti), 19,573
o 1968, Irbid camp, 23,512
o 1952, Jabal el-Hussein, 27,674
o 1968, Jerash camp, 15,696
o 1968, Marka, 41,237
o 1967, Souf, 14,911
o 1968, Talbieh, 4,041
o 1949, Zarqa camp, 17,344
Lebanon
The total number of registered refugees in Lebanon is 409,714.[1] There are 12 official camps with 225,125 refugees.
The Palestinians' Lebanese camps became ghettos as the Palestinians were barred from citizenship, finding certain jobs, or traveling abroad.[2] Some of these refugee camps, overcrowded and filled with angry refugees, helped seed the beginnings of Yasser Arafat's Fatah group; guerrilla attacks on Israel were launched from some of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.[3]
Following major armed conflict in one camp in 2007, the Lebanese government sought greater input into the rebuilding of the camp, and in the camp's ongoing management. The government wanted the ability to intervene in the future, and to exercise police powers there instead of the Palestinian armed forces that had policed the camp previously.[2]
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o 1955, Beddawi, 15,695
o 1948, Burj el-Barajneh, 19,526[2][3]
o 1955, Burj el-Shemali, 18,134
o 1956, Dbayeh, 4,223
o Dikwaneh, destroyed
o 1948, Ein el-Hilweh, 44,133
o 1948, El-Buss, 9,840
o Jisr el-Basha, destroyed
o 1952, Mar Elias, 1,406
o 1954, Mieh Mieh, 5,078
o Nabatieh camp, destroyed in 1973
o 1949, Nahr al-Bared, 28,358 destroyed in 2007
o 1963, Rashidieh, 24,679
o Sabra destroyed
o 1949, Shatila, 11,998
o 1948, Wavel, 7,357
[edit] Syria
Syria has 10 official camps with 119,776 refugees.
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o 1950, Dera'a, 5,916
o 1967, Dera'a (Emergency), 5,536
o 1950, Hama, 7,597
o 1949, Homs, 13,825
o 1948, Jaramana, 5,007
o 1950, Khan Dunoun, 8,603
o 1949, Khan Eshieh, 15,731
o 1948, Neirab, 17,994
o 1967, Qabr Essit, 16,016
o 1948, Sbeineh, 19,624
Additional unofficial camps in Syria:
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o 1955-6, Latakia camp, 6,534 registered refugees
o 1957, Yarmouk (Damascus), 112,550 registered refugees
o 1962, Ein Al-Tal, 4,329 registered refugees[4]
[edit] West Bank
The West Bank has 19 official camps with 194,514 refugees.
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o 1950, Aida, 4,151
o 1949, Am'ari, 8,083
o 1948, Aqabat Jabr, 5,197
o 1950, Arroub, 9,180
o 1950, Askar, 31,894
o 1950, Balata, 41,681
o 1950, Beit Jibrin ('Azza), 1,828
o 1950, Camp No.1 (Ein Beit al-Ma'), 6,221
o 1949, Deir Ammar, 2,189
o 1949, Dheisheh, 10,923
o 1948, Ein as-Sultan, 1,888
o 1949, Far'a, 11,836
o 1949, Fawwar, 7,072
o 1949, Jalazone, 9,284
o 1953, Jenin, 35,050
o 1949, Kalandia, 9,188
o 1952, Nur Shams, 8,179
o 1965, Shu'fat, 9,567
o 1950, Tulkarm, 17,259
[edit] Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip has eight official camps with 478,854 refugees.
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o 1948, Beach camp (Shati), 76,109
o 1949, Bureij, 30,059
o 1948, Deir el-Balah camp, 20,188
o 1948, Jabalia (Jabaliya), 103,646
o 1949, Khan Yunis, 60,662
o 1949, Maghazi, 22,536
o 1949, Nuseirat, 64,233
o 1949, Rafah camp, 90,638
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