Shatila refugee camp

Shatila in 2019
Shatila in 2003

The Shatila refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم شاتيلا), is a Palestinian refugee camp started in 1949. It is located in southern Beirut, Lebanon. More than 9,842 registered Palestinian refugees live there.[1] 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.[2]

Shatila was set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross to accommodate hundreds of refugees who came there after 1948.[1] They were from villages around the area of Amka, Majd al-Krum and Yajur in northern Palestine.[1]

School in the camp
Life in Shatila, a film from 2009

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Lebanon - Camp Profiles - Shatila". UNRWA. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2014. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "UNRWAShatila" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ "Syrian refugees fear permanent exile in Lebanon's camps". BBC News. 3 April 2014. Archived from the original on 24 May 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.

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