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Jabal el-Hussein camp () is one of the 10 officially recognized
UNRWA The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA, pronounced ) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Palestinians who fl ...
Palestinian refugee camps Palestinian refugee camps were first established to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight during the 1948 Palestine war. Camps were established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ( ...
in
Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
. It is located outside of the Abdali area district of
Amman Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...
. It is one of the first four camps in Jordan founded to accommodate refugees from the
1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight In the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine's predominantly Arab population – fled from their homes or were expelled. Expulsions and attacks against Palestinians were carried out by the ...
, the others being
Irbid camp Irbid Camp () is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Irbid. It was one of the four camps founded in Jordan to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flig ...
,
Al-Wehdat refugee camp Amman New Camp, usually known as the Al-Wehdat or Al-Wihdat camp (), which is located in the Hay Al Awdah neighbourhood in southeast Amman, the capital city of Jordan, occupies a , Of the ten recognized Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Al-We ...
and
Zarqa Camp Zarqa Camp () is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Zarqa. It was the first Palestine refugee camp to be established in Jordan, in 1949, and one of the four camps founded to acc ...
.


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{{Palestinian refugee camps Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan 1952 establishments in Jordan Populated places in Amman Governorate