Jenin refers both to a city in the West Bank and to the adjoining Jenin Refugee Camp. In Heart of Jenin, Khatib’s family lives in the camp, along with about 12,000 fellow Palestinian refugees.
The Jenin camp looks like an established city because it has been there since 1953. It is one of 58 Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria where an estimated 1.3 million Palestinians live.
The camps were created when Palestinians were expelled from their homes in 1948 during the creation of Israel, and again after Israel occupied additional land in 1967.
Click on the green markers in this map to learn more about these camps. Use the + button to zoom in and click on overlapping markers.
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Details and photographs in this map are provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which was established after the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and operates many of the camps.
UNRWA defines a camp as a plot of land provided by the host government for accommodating Palestinian refugees. Population refers to the number of registered refugees living in the camp.
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What about the Jewish refugees from Arab lands? There were at least as many Jews expelled from Arab lands. Why don’t you show their flight, their story, their plight? Why don’t you compare how Israel uplifted them, with the way Arab lands still manipulate descendants of Arab refugees?
The Arab Jewish lived very well before the illegal establishment of Israel The foreign minister of Iraq was Jewish in 1939 and there are many other examples. All of the Jewish Refugee’s have been paid well, by the US and other governments (24 million dollars a day), how about the 3 million Israel (Jews) who migrated from Israel to the US and the rest of the world, since 1947.
What about the kidnapping of Jewish children from Yemen by the Israel terrorist government?
This is a hugely complex subject, and confrontational comments such as Doron’s are just that – confrontational. Lacking any context they serve just to inflame one side against the other. This kind of dialogue/comment is not productive or helpful. Thank you.
What is Abdullah taking about? There ws no Jewish foreign minister in Iraq in 1939. The Jews left Arab countries as refugees – they outnumbered Palestinian refugees two to one. At first Israel put them in tent camps. Their persecution predated the establishment of Israel: in 1941, 179 Jews were murdered in the Farhoud pogrom in Iraq. You will not find Jews living in tent camps anymore, they refused to become victims and tools of propaganda, unlike Palestinian refugees.
#1 and #4:
Your knowledge in history is clearly so limited, the Arab countries including PALESTINE welcomed the Jews who came from Europe. After the occupation of the Palestinian land some of Jews in the Arabic counties chose to go and live in the occupied Palestinian land and some of them still to this day in the Arabic countries, Do NOT try to create a Jewish refuge situation because it does not exist, Israel is the occupation force, occupation is illegal and against humanity, occupation is a crime and a theft (theft of land and freedom)
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