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Jalazone

Field	Value
name	Jalazone Camp
translit_lang1	Arabic
translit_lang1_type	Arabic
translit_lang1_info	مخيّم الجلزون
translit_lang1_type1	Latin
translit_lang1_info1	al-Jalazun Camp (official)
al-Jalazoun Camp (unofficial)
type	Refugee Camp
image_skyline	Al Jalazone Refugee Camp by Khaldun Bshara 2009.JPG
image_caption	View of Jalazone Camp from road coming from Jifna in 2009, Khaldun Bshara
pushpin_map	Palestine
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Jalazone Camp within Palestine
coordinates
grid_name	Palestine grid
subdivision_type	State
subdivision_name	State of Palestine
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Ramallah and al-Bireh
established_title	Founded
government_footnotes	tags --
government_type	Refugee Camp (from 1949)
unit_pref	dunam
area_total_km2	0.25
area_total_dunam	253
population_footnotes
population_total	8201
population_as_of	2017
population_density_km2	auto

al-Jalazoun Camp (unofficial) Jalazone () is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 7 km north of Ramallah and adjacent to the village of Jifna to the north, Deir Dibwan to the east, Bir Zeit to the west and the Beit El Israeli settlement to the southeast.

History

Distribution of food in the camp in 1953

Jalazone was established in 1949 on 253 dunams of land, as a result of the Palestinian expulsion following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Like all official West Bank refugee camps, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had leased the land from Jordan. Most of the plots were state owned before the lease, while the remainder belonged to landowners from various nearby towns. After the Oslo Agreements between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel, Jalazone's administrative affairs were transferred to the PNA while security matters remained under Israeli control. UNRWA also provides services to the camp.

Demographics

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Jalazone had a population of 8,201 inhabitants in 2017. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated the total population to be 14,520 in 2007. The number of inhabitants before 1967 was 5,013. The gender ratio in 2007 was 51.3% male and 48.7% female. The average age of camp residents was 24.

The majority of the refugees were from Lydda and many other Arab villages in central Palestine. The camp is largely maintained by the UNRWA with funding by Saudi Arabia. According to UNRWA archives in 2005, the majority of the families in the camp are descendants of refugees originally from Bayt Nabala (643 families) the neighboring town of Lydda (373 families). According to OCHA statistics, refugees in Jalazone hail from a total of 36 villages, most located in central Palestine, and mainly from Bayt Nabala, Annaba, al-Muzayri'a, Innaba, and al-Khayriyya. Others came from northern towns and villages, particularly Tiberias, Haifa, Sabbarin, Umm az-Zinat as well as al-Dawayima in the south near Hebron.

References

(February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
[http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/opt_campprof_unrwa_jalazone_oct_2008.pdf Jalazone Refugee Camp Profile] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-09-23 . [[Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs]] (OCHA). October 2008.)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060623055235/https://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/westbank/jalazone.html Jalazone Refugee Camp] United Nations Relief and Works Agency
Yahya, Adel. (2006). "A story of a Camp: al-Jalazone". Pace.

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