Ein El Hilweh camp is located south of Saida in south Lebanon. It is the largest Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon.
The camp’s inhabitants originally came in 1948 mostly from coastal Palestinian towns. The camp also hosts a large number of Palestine refugees displaced from other parts of Lebanon, particularly from Tripoli, who came to Ein El Hilweh during the Lebanese civil war and in the aftermath of the Nahr el-Bared conflict in 2007.
The ongoing Syria crisis has also led to the additional presence of Syrian refugees and Palestinian Refugees from Syria (PRS) in the camp.
*This figure does not claim to represent the actual number present in the country as, for example, Palestine refugees may have left over the years and UNRWA does not track the habitual movement of refugees out of its fields of operation.
