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REFUGEE CAMP
NO. 1 (Beit Ilma)
Camp No. 1 was established in 1950 on 45 dunums beside the main
Nablus/Jenin road, and within the municipal boundaries of Nablus.
Following the Israeli redeployment in 1995, the camp fell under
Palestinian Authority control in "zone A".
The camp is very cramped, there is serious overcrowding, and the
narrow alleys are in desperate need of repair. During funerals, the
deceased are usually passed through windows from one shelter to
another in order to reach the camp's main street.
A serious outbreak of diarrhoea hospitalised several hundred camp
residents in the summer of 1998. Contaminated municipal water supplies
was the cause of the epidemic and UNRWA's health staff worked day and
night to treat the sick and to take patients to clinics and hospitals
in other parts of the West Bank.
In 1997, UNRWA constructed two new schools, with contributions from
the governments of Saudi Arabia and Sweden, on a plot of land outside
the camp's boundaries which was made available by Nablus Municipality.
FACTS AND FIGURES
- Registered Refugee Population: 6508
- Special hardship cases: 294 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: 14 houses were affected in which 12 were assisted
- Number of families receiving emergency food rations: 769
- Number of pupils: Male: 621, Female: 647
- UNRWA assisted in renovating 10 houses in the camp.
- A New office for the Public Services Committee was constructed in
coordination with UNDP.
- As part of the Job creation program, the western part of the camp
was asphalted and part of the drainage system was renovated.
Figures as of 31 March 2005
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