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In 2019 more than 5.6 million Palestinian refugees were registered with the United Nations. Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country, village, or house during the 1948 Palestine war and during the 1967 Six-Day War. Most Palestinian refugees live in or near 68 Palestinian refugee camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) defined Palestinian refugees to refer to the original "Palestine refugees" as well as their patrilineal descendants. However, UNRWA's assistance is limited to Palestine refugees residing in UNRWA's areas of operation in the Occupied Palestinian Territoriy, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.[1][2]

1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight – Palestine refugees making their way from Galilee in October–November 1948.
Destroyed house in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza–Israel conflict, December 2012.
Pardes Hana Immigrant Camp of Jewish refugees, 1950
2018 Gaza border protests, Bureij refugee camp in Gaza
Shatila refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut in May 2019
Entrance to the Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp in southern Beirut.

Places and populations

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District Number of depopulated villages Number of refugees in 1948 Number of refugees in 2000
Beersheba 88 90,507 590,231
Beisan 31 19,602 127,832
Jenin 6 4,005 26,118
Haifa 59 121,196 790,365
Hebron 16 22,991 149,933
Ramle 64 97,405 635,215
Safad 78 52,248 340,729
Tiberias 26 28,872 188,285
Tulkarm 18 11,032 71,944
Acre 30 47,038 306,753
Gaza 46 79,947 521,360
Jerusalem 39 97,950 638,769
Nazareth 5 8,746 57,036
Jaffa 25 123,227 803,610
Total 531 804,766 5,248,185
Demography of Palestine[ambiguous]


The number of UNRWA registered Palestine refugees by country or territory in January 2015 were as follows:[3]

 Jordan 2,117,361
 Gaza Strip 1,276,929
 West Bank 774,167
 Syria 528,616
 Lebanon 452,669
Total 5,149,742
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References

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  1. ↑ Susan Akram (2011). International law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taylor & Francis. pp. 19–20, 38. ISBN 978-0415573221. The term 'refugees' applies to all persons, Arabs, Jews and others who have been displaced from their homes in Palestine. This would include Arabs in Israel who have been shifted from their normal places of residence. It would also include Jews who had their homes in Arab Palestine, such as the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter of the Old City. It would not include Arabs who lost their lands but not their houses, such as the inhabitants of Tulkarm
  2. ↑ "Consolidated Eligibility and Registration Instructions" (PDF). UNRWA. Persons who meet UNRWA's Palestine Refugee criteria These are persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict. Palestine Refugees, and descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children, are eligible to register for UNRWA services. The Agency accepts new applications from persons who wish to be registered as Palestine Refugees. Once they are registered with UNRWA, persons in this category are referred to as Registered Refugees or as Registered Palestine Refugees.
  3. ↑ "UNRWA in figures" (PDF). UNRWA.
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