Nuseirat Camp

Nuseirat camp
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	مخيّم النصيرات
Nuseirat camp Location of Nuseirat camp within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 31°26′51.56″N 34°23′34.35″E / 31.4476556°N 34.3928750°E / 31.4476556; 34.3928750Coordinates: 31°26′51.56″N 34°23′34.35″E / 31.4476556°N 34.3928750°E / 31.4476556; 34.3928750
Governorate	Deir al-Balah
Government
• Type	Refugee Camp
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	64,423

Nuseirat (Arabic: مخيّم النصيرات‎) is a Palestinian refugee camp located five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah. The refugee camp is in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the Refugee Camp had a population of 64,423 in mid-year 2006.^[1]

The Nuseirat camp was named after the local Nuseirat tribe, part of the larger Hanajira confederation, that historically dominated the area between Deir al-Balah and Gaza. Most refugees came from the southern areas of Palestine such as Beersheba and the coastal plain. Prior to the camp's establishment by UNRWA, the roughly 16,000 original refugees settled in the grounds of a former British military prison at the site.^[2]

References

External links

Nuseirat articles from UNWRA
Welcome To al-Nusayrat R.C.

Deir al-Balah Governorate

Cities	Deir al-Balah

Municipalities	az-Zawayda

Village councils	al-Musaddar Wadi as-Salqa

Refugee camps	Bureij Deir al-Balah camp Maghazi Nuseirat

Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015^[1]

Gaza Strip
518,000 UNRWA refugees

West Bank
188,150 UNRWA refugees

Syria
319,958 UNRWA refugees

Lebanon
188,850 UNRWA refugees

Jordan
355,500 UNRWA refugees

Al-Shati (Beach camp)	87,000
Bureij	34,000
Deir al-Balah	21,000
Jabalia	110,000
Khan Yunis	72,000
Maghazi	24,000
Nuseirat	66,000
Rafah	104,000
Canada Camp	closed

Aqabat Jaber	6,400
Ein as-Sultan	1,900
Far'a	7,600
Fawwar	8,000
Jalazone	11,000
Kalandia	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 camp	18,000
Nur Shams	9,000
Jenin camp	16,000
Shuafat camp	11,000
Silwad

Sbeineh	22,600
Khan Eshieh	20,000
Neirab	20,500
Homs	22,000
Jaramana camp	18,658
Daraa camp	10,000
Hama camp	8,000
Khan Dannun	10,000
Qabr Essit	23,700

Unofficial	camps
Ein Al-Tal	6,000
Latakia Camp	10,000
Yarmouk	148,500

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 camp	4,351
Rashidieh	31,478

Zarqa camp	20,000
Jabal el-Hussein	29,000
Amman New Camp (Wihdat)	51,500
Souf	20,000
Baqa'a	104,000
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp)	22,000
Irbid camp	25,000
Jerash camp	24,000
Marka	53,000
Talbieh	7,000

↑ "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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