Latest Updates on the Situation in Gaza Strip (July 2007) More than one half-million refugees desperately need relief, in the most difficult situation they are facing since the 1967 war. More than 80% of the families have been affected by recent circumstances; 500 people were killed, 60% of them being civilians and children; approximately 5000 people were injured, and 50% of those became disabled. The rate of poverty has increased dramatically and many families have no income; governmental associations have broken down, and many have stopped providing humanitarian assistance to their beneficiaries. In this situation, those organizations working to provide humanitarian relief to families have become overloaded. These organizations, like Al-Karmel, have been working to provide families with the minimum humanitarian aid for their survival in these very black days. In this volatile, difficult situation that has persisted since early 2006, we have seen the following: * More than 64% of Palestinian families live with less than 500 NIS ($120), half of it from the unsustainable human aid from national and international relief organizations.
* There is a 40% unemployment rate among Palestinian households in the Gaza Strip.
* 70% of the planted lands on the border of the Gaza Strip were destroyed by Israeli tanks.
* 30% of families were affected by the internal struggle between families and political parties.
* 100% of families suffer from psychological stress.
Reported by Al-Karmel for Culture and Social Development Association in an appeal for support from the camps and towns in the middle and the south of the Gaza Strip: Nuseirat, Maghazi, Deir al-Balah, Al-Bureij, Wadi al-Salka, Al-Qarara; the eastern villages of Khan Yunis, Al-Mowasi, Maan, Khan Yunis Camp.
Al-Karmel (http://alkarmelgaza.org) is a partner of Takaful, the Palestinian Refugee Support Network (http://www.refugeesupport.org) |
Image: Beach Camp
General Information معلومات عامة حول اللاجئين
Refugees in Gaza Strip اللاجئون في قطاع غزة يتفرد قطاع غزة بأن أغلبية سكانه من اللاجئين الذين يعيش أكثر من نصفهم في ثمانية مخيمات. وكان معظم الفارين إلى قطاع غزة نتيجة للاحتلال الإسرائيلي عام 1948 من يافا، ومدن وقرى جنوبي يافا، ومن منطقة بئر السبع بالنقب. ووصل حوالي 200000 لاجئ إلى غزة التي كان يقطنها آنذاك 80000 نسمة فقط. وكان هذا الطوفان عبئا ثقيلا على هذا القطاع الأرضي الضيق الذي تبلغ مساحته 360 كم مربع فقط. وأكثر من ثلاثة أرباع التعداد السكاني الحالي المقدر بحوالي 1.4 مليون نسمة من اللاجئين المسجلين الذين يمثلون 22.24% من إجمالي لاجئي فلسطين المسجلين لدى الأونروا
تسكن أحد أكبر كثافة سكانية في العالم في مخيمات اللاجئين في قطاع غزة. فمثلا، يعيش أكثر من 79853 لاجئ في مخيم الشاطئ الذي تقل مساحته عن كيلو متر مربع واحد The Gaza Strip is unique as the majority of its population is refugees and over half of the refugees live in eight camps. Most of the people who fled to the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli occupation of 1948 and are from Jaffa, towns and villages south of Jaffa, and from the Beersheva area in the Negev. In all, some 200,000 refugees came to Gaza, whose original inhabitants numbered only 80,000. Such an influx severely burdened this narrow strip of land; an area of only 360 square kilometers. Over three-quarters of the current estimated population of some 1.4 million are registered refugees; representing 22.42 per cent of all UNRWA registered Palestine refugees.
The refugee camps in the Gaza Strip have one of the highest population densities in the world. For example, over 80,688 refugees live in Beach camp whose area is less than one square kilometer.
CAMP | اللاجئون المسجلون # of Registered Refugees | اسم المخيم | Jabalia | 106,846 | جباليا | Rafah | 97,412 | رفح | Beach | 80,567 | الشاطئ | Nuseirat | 58,727 | النصيرات | Khan Younis | 61,539 | خان يونس | Bureij | 29,805 | البريج | Maghazi | 23,161 | المغازي |
Source: http://www.un.org/unrwa/arabic/Refugees/Gaza/index.htm
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