Bourj el-Barajneh camp

Bourj el-Barajneh Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon established in 1948 near the village of Bourj el-Barajneh near Beirut and located on the main road leading to Beirut International Airport, with an official area of kilometers square kilometers, and is one of the largest camps in the Beirut region, with a population of 25,000.^[1]

Location and population

The camp is located in the southern suburb of Beirut near Beirut International Airport, and was established by the Union of Red Cross Societies in 1948 to accommodate refugees from the Galilee in northern Palestine. Today, it has a population of 25,000 Palestinians and others, including 16,000 registered refugees with the UNRWA.

The origins of the majority of the camp residents belong to the district of Acre; most of the population descend from the villages of Kuwikat, Al-Kabri, Tarhida, Shaab, Sheikh Dawood; while the rest of the camp residents descend from Al-Ghabsiya, Al-Khalasa, Sa'sa, Sahmata, Deir Al-Qasi, Al-Bir, Al-Birwa, Aqa, Safed, Fara, Acre, Saffuriya, Naf, Naf, Mi'ar, Damun, Al-Nahr and others.

In the camp, UNRWA runs seven schools, a career guidance center, and one health center, and most of the men work in occasional works in the construction sector, although part of them have intermediate or university degrees, while women work in sewing factories. The camp suffered severe damage and nearly a quarter of its population was displaced during the years of the Lebanese civil war.

In the midst of the Syrian crisis, Syrian refugees made up 47% of the camp's population in 2017.

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Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015^[1]

Gaza Strip 518,000 UNRWA refugees	West Bank 188,150 UNRWA refugees	Syria 319,958 UNRWA refugees	Lebanon 188,850 UNRWA refugees	Jordan 355,500 UNRWA refugees
Al-Shati (Beach camp) 87,000 Bureij 34,000 Deir al-Balah 21,000 Jabalia 110,000 Khan Yunis 72,000 Maghazi 24,000 Nuseirat 66,000 Rafah 104,000 Canada closed	Aqabat Jaber 6,400 Ein as-Sultan 1,900 Far'a 7,600 Fawwar 8,000 Jalazone 11,000 Qalandia 11,000 Am'ari 10,500 Deir 'Ammar 2,400 Dheisheh 13,000 Aida 4,700 Al-Arroub 10,400 Askar 15,900 Balata 23,600 'Azza (Beit Jibrin) 1,000 Ein Beit al-Ma' (Camp No. 1) 6,750 Tulkarm 18,000 Nur Shams 9,000 Jenin 16,000 Shu'fat 11,000 Silwad Birzeit	Sabinah 22,600 Khan al-Shih 20,000 Nayrab 20,500 Homs 22,000 Jaramana 18,658 Daraa 10,000 Hama 8,000 Khan Danoun 10,000 Qabr Essit 23,700 Unofficial camps Ein Al-Tal 6,000 Latakia 10,000 Yarmouk 148,500	Bourj el-Barajneh 17,945 Ain al-Hilweh 54,116 El Buss 11,254 Nahr al-Bared 5,857 Shatila 9,842 Wavel 8,806 Mar Elias 662 Mieh Mieh 5,250 Beddawi 16,500 Burj el-Shemali 22,789 Dbayeh 4,351 Rashidieh 31,478 Former camps Tel al-Zaatar  ? Nabatieh  ?	Zarqa 20,000 Jabal el-Hussein 29,000 Amman New (Wihdat) 51,500 Souf 20,000 Baqa'a 104,000 Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp) 22,000 Irbid 25,000 Jerash 24,000 Marka 53,000 Talbieh 8,000 Al-Hassan  ? Madaba  ? Sokhna  ?

References

1. ^ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.