Khan al-Shih camp

Khan al-Shih camp is of the Palestinian refugee camps and is located next to the ancient ruins of Khan al-Shih, 27 kilometers southwest of Damascus, which was historically a stopping point for trade convoys between Damascus and the southwest.^[1]

The camp provided shelter to the first refugees from Palestine in 1948. The camp was established in 1949 on an area of land of 0.69 square kilometers. Most of the refugees in the camp are from the northern parts of Palestine, and many today have good degrees of education and work as teachers or as civil servants. The others work as farmers on Syrian-owned land and handicraft workers in nearby workshops.The camp has a high school, two primary and preparatory schools and a health clinic run by UNRWA.

Population

The camp is inhabited by approximately 30,000 and most of the refugees in the camp descend from the upper Galilee areas of the cities of Tiberias, Nazareth and Safed in Palestine, and many of them today have good degrees of education and work as teachers or as civil servants, while others work as farmers on Syrian-owned land and as manual workers in neighboring workshops.

Marital status

The social and economic development in the camp is slow and governed by a number of subjective factors that distinguish it from other Palestinian communities in Syria, as the community structure limited the development programs that benefited other communities, which led to a distortion in infrastructure and services. Two years after the civil war in Syria the camp was subjected to a siege, a few families from the camp left for Europe in search of humanitarian asylum.

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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 closed	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

1. ^ "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.