page_title: Palestinian refugees
section_title: Gaza Strip
hierarchical_section_title: Palestinian refugees / Refugee statistics / Gaza Strip
caption_attribution_description: English: 2018 Gaza border protests, Bureij العربية: مخيم البريج أُنشئ المخيم عام 1949 على مساحة قدرها 528 دونماً، تقلصت بعد ذلك حتى وصلت إلى 478 دونماً. يقع إلى الجنوب من مدينة غزة، وهو أحد المخيمات النائية في القطاع. עברית: הפגנות יום שישי מול גדר המערכת, שכונת אל בוריג -העימותים בגבול ישראל-רצועת עזה (2018)
context_page_description: Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country over the course of the 1947-49 Palestine war and the Six Day war. Most Palestinian refugees live in or near the 68 Palestinian refugee camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  The term originally referred to both Arabs and Jews whose normal place of residence had been in Mandatory Palestine but were displaced and lost their livelihoods as a result of the 1948 Palestine war.
  In 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East defined Palestinian refugees to refer to the original "Palestine refugees" as well as their patrilineal descendants. However, UNRWA's assistance is limited to Palestine refugees residing in UNRWA's areas of operation in the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
  In 2012, there were an estimated 4,950,000 registered descendants of the original "Palestine refugees" who fit the 1949 UNRWA criteria, based on the UNRWA registration requirements, of which an estimated 1.5 million lived in UNRWA camps.
context_section_description: As of January 2015, the Gaza Strip has 8 UNRWA refugee camps with 560,964 Palestinian refugees, and 1,276,929 registered refugees in total, out of a population of 1,816,379.
caption: 2018 Gaza border protests, Bureij refugee camp in Gaza
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