BEIT JIBRIN REFUGEE CAMP

A shelter demolished during the intifadah

Beit Jibrin is the smallest camp in the West Bank and was established in 1950 in the heart of Bethlehem inside the municipal boundaries on an area of 20 dunums. The camp's residents receive services from UNRWA installations in nearby Aida refugee camp and the sub-area office in Bethlehem. Following the Israeli army redeployment in 1995, the camp came under Palestinian Authority control.

FACTS AND FIGURES

• Registered Refugee Population: 2025
• Special hardship cases: 57 families
• Number of damaged shelters that have been affected due to the IDF incursions in the West Bank since the beginning of the Intifada till March 2004: 19 in which 18 were assisted.
• Number of families receiving emergency food rations: 270