Palestinian refugee camps trace back to 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were displaced from their homes during the war surrounding Israel’s creation, an event Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or “catastrophe.” The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, was established in 1949 specifically to provide relief to these refugees and their descendants. Today, UNRWA reports that roughly 5.9 million Palestinians remain registered as refugees, with the wider global Palestinian population, including many never formally registered, estimated at over 9 million refugees when…
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