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Bourj el-Barajneh Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon established in 1948 near the village of Bourj el-Barajneh near Beirut and located on the main road leading to Beirut International Airport, with an official area of kilometers square kilometers, and is one of the largest camps in the Beirut region, with a population of 25,000. ^[1]

Location and population

The camp is located in the southern suburb of Beirut near Beirut International Airport, and was established by the Union of Red Cross Societies in 1948 to accommodate refugees from the Galilee in northern Palestine. Today, it has a population of 25,000 Palestinians and others, including 16,000 registered refugees with the UNRWA.

The origins of the majority of the camp residents belong to the district of Acre; most of the population descend from the villages of Kuwikat, Al-Kabri, Tarhida, Shaab, Sheikh Dawood; while the rest of the camp residents descend from Al-Ghabsiya, Al-Khalasa, Sa'sa, Sahmata, Deir Al-Qasi, Al-Bir, Al-Birwa, Aqa, Safed, Fara, Acre, Saffuriya, Naf, Naf, Mi'ar, Damun, Al-Nahr and others.

In the camp, UNRWA runs seven schools, a career guidance center, and one health center, and most of the men work in occasional works in the construction sector, although part of them have intermediate or university degrees, while women work in sewing factories. The camp suffered severe damage and nearly a quarter of its population was displaced during the years of the Lebanese civil war.

In the midst of the Syrian crisis, Syrian refugees made up 47% of the camp's population in 2017.

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