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 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
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
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
Unofficial camps
Ein Al-Tal 6,000
Latakia 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 4,351
Rashidieh 31,478
Former camps
Tel al-Zaatar ?
Nabatieh ?
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 ?
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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