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Souf Camp (Arabic: مخيم سوف) is a Palestinian refugee camp situated nearby the town of Souf and the city of Jerash in Jordan. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), there was 21,900 people living in the camp in 2005, of which 20,530 were registered refugees.[1]
History
Souf Camp is one of the six emergency camps set up in Jordan for Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank from incoming Israeli forces during the Six-Day War in June 1967.[1] Most of the refugees were 1948 refugees from Bayt Jibrin and 'Ajjur as well as Palestinians from the city of Tubas.[1][2]
Local infrastructure
There are 135 commercial shops, three bakeries and one pharmacy in the camp.[3] There is 35,000 square meters of road in Souf. About 98% of the inhabitants have access to water.[4] The Jordanian government runs a post office, a police station and youth club in Souf. There are six schools in the camp, four managed by the UNRWA and the only two secondary schools by the Jordanian government.[1]
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Gaza Strip518,000 UNRWA refugees West Bank 188,150 UNRWA refugees | Syria 319,958 UNRWA refugees | Lebanon 188,850 UNRWA refugees | Jordan 355,500 UNRWA refugees | |
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 |
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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 |
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Unofficial camps |
Ein Al-Tal | 6,000 |
Latakia | 10,000 |
Yarmouk | 148,500 |
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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 |
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Former camps |
Tel al-Zaatar | ? |
Nabatieh | ? |
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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 | ? |
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References
- ^ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
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