Souf Camp
Souf Camp (
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), there was 21,900 people living in the camp in 2005, of which 20,530 were registered refugees.[1]
History
Souf Camp is one of the six emergency camps set up in Jordan for
Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank from incoming Israeli forces during the Six-Day War in June 1967.[1] Most of the refugees were 1948 refugees from Bayt Jibrin and 'Ajjur as well as Palestinians from the city of Tubas.[1][2]
Local infrastructure
There are 135 commercial shops, three bakeries and one pharmacy in the camp.[3] There is 35,000 square meters of road in Souf. About 98% of the inhabitants have access to water.[4] The Jordanian government runs a post office, a police station and youth club in Souf. There are six schools in the camp, four managed by the UNRWA and the only two secondary schools by the Jordanian government.[1]
References
External links
- Souf, articles from UNWRA
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