Shatila refugee camp

The Shatila refugee camp (), is a Palestinian refugee camp started in 1949. It is located in southern Beirut, Lebanon. More than 9,842 registered Palestinian refugees live there. Since the start of the Syrian Civil War, the refugee camp has also received a large number of refugees from the war in Syria. In 2014, the camp's population was between 10,000 and 22,000.

Shatila was set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross to accommodate hundreds of refugees who came there after 1948."Lebanon - Camp Profiles - Shatila". UNRWA. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2014. They were from villages around the area of Amka, Majd al-Krum and Yajur in northern Palestine.

 Related pages 

 Naji al-Ali

 References 

 Other websites 

 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

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