Refugee camps

Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon unprepared for winter

Friday-13-January-2023

Some 210000 Palestine refugees (180000 Palestine refugees from Lebanon and 30000 Palestine refugees from Syria) live in 12 official refugee camps in Lebanon amid very difficult living conditions.

Poverty rates reach 93% in Palestinian refugee camps

Monday-7-November-2022

Poverty rates increased to 93 percent in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria according to Ahmad Abu Houli member of executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Palestinian refugees in Sabineh camp suffer from electricity cuts

Monday-7-November-2022

Palestinian refugees in al-Sabineh camp southwest of the Syrian capital Damascus are suffering from electricity cuts that recently reached 24 consecutive hours.

Palestinian initiative to help Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

Friday-31-December-2021

A group of Palestinian youths in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon recently launched a campaign to collect medical contributions and assistance in favor of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon's refugee camps.

“Your Donation Warms Them”

Saturday-18-December-2021

The Jerusalemite YouTuber and activist Saleh Al-Zaghari was able to collect $350000 in an online 34-hour aid campaign title “Your Donation Warms Them".

Yarmouk refugee camp: Health system resilience in the face of crisis

Saturday-11-December-2021

Hundreds of Palestinian refugees started returning to their devastated homes in Yarmouk Camp in Syria's Damascus after years of displacement due to the 2012-2018 armed conflict.

Haneyya: Our refugee camps abroad are “fortresses of the resistance”

Sunday-6-September-2020

Head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya has hailed the Palestinian refugee camps abroad as “fortresses of the resistance” and “makers of major events and heroes” stressing these camps “has kept the Palestinian cause alive.”

Hamas slams Geagea’s call for besieging Palestinian camps in Lebanon

Saturday-14-March-2020

Senior Hamas official Ra’fat Murra has denounced the call made by Samir Geagea head of the Lebanese Forces (a Christian political party) to isolate the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon at the pretext of containing the Coronavirus describing it as “reprehensible.”

In Nablus refugee camps life is difficult due to heavy rain

Monday-31-December-2018

The elderly man Abd al-Rahman Abu Jaber 60 found it difficult to reach his house in Al-Jammasin neighborhood in Balata refugee camp east of Nablus due to the flow of rainwater in the alley adjacent to his house with water levels reaching 30 cm.

UNRWA facilities in Yarmouk and Dera’a camps need major repairs

Sunday-2-December-2018

UNRWA has reported that almost all its installations in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk near Damascus as well as the Dera’a camp in the South of Syria sustained considerable damage or destruction in the war-torn country.