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The Shatila refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم شاتيلا), also known as the Chatila refugee camp, is a settlement originally set up for Palestinian refugees in 1949. It is located in southern Beirut, Lebanon and houses more than 9,842 registered Palestine refugees. Since the eruption of the Syrian Civil War, the refugee camp has received a large number of Syrian refugees. In 2014, the camp's population was estimated to be between 10,000 and 22,000.

History

Establishment

Shatila was set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross to accommodate hundreds of refugees who came there after 1948. They were from villages around the area of Amka, Majd al-Krum and Yajur in northern Palestine.

During Syrian Civil War

Since the eruption of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Lebanon's population has swelled by more than 1 million Syrian refugees. The camp has also swollen with Syrian refugees, receiving mostly the poor Syrians. As of 2014, the camp's population is estimated to be from 10,000 to 22,000.

Management

The camp comprises approximately one square kilometer and thus has an exceptionally high population density.

UNRWA operates one health center and two primary schools within the camp. Non-governmental organizations active in the camp include Al-Najda, Beit Atfal Al-Soumoud, Norwegian Peoples' Aid, Doctors Without Borders, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Association Najdeh.

See also

• Naji al-Ali

References

1. ^ "Lebanon - Camp Profiles - Shatila". UNRWA. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
2. ^ "Syrian refugees fear permanent exile in Lebanon's camps". BBC News. 3 April 2014. Archived from the original on 24 May 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
3. "News and media". ifrc.org. Archived from the original on 26 August 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2006.
4. "Association Najdeh". association-najdeh.org. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2023.

External links

• Lebanon - Camp Profiles - Shatila
• Windward between Naples and Baghdad
• Are Knudsen and S. Hanafi (Eds.) Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant. Routledge. 2010

v t e Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015
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-Shamali 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 "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

v t e Syrian refugee camps locations and populations

Iraq 5,861 refugees as of 2015  Iraqi Kurdistan 239,955 refugees as of 2015  Jordan 628,427 refugees  Lebanon 1,196,560 refugees as of 2015 Refugees in  Turkey 3,614,108 (registered as of 2018) Al-Obaidi 1,519 Arbat 5,878 Basirma 3,661 Darashakran 9,809 Domiz 1 43,235 Domiz 2 5,810 Gawilan 6,131 Kawergosk 10,215 Moqebleh unknown Qushtapa 6,285 Azraq 17,738 Mrajeeb Al Fhood 5,366 Zaatari 83,501 Sabra and Shatila 10,000-22,000 Ain al-Hilweh 50,000 Kilis Oncupinar 14,000 Islahiye refugee camp K.Maras refugee camp Osmaniye refugee camp Nizip refugee camp Karkamis refugee camp Akcakale refugee camp Ceylanpinar-Telhamut refugee camp

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• Populated places established in 1949
• Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon
• Syrian refugee camps
• 1949 establishments in Lebanon
• Beirut in the Israeli–Lebanese conflict
• Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon
• Sabra and Shatila massacre