Official report of greater than 4 million Palestinian refugees – Muricas News

As we speak, Monday, an official Palestinian report monitored the struggling of greater than 6.4 million Palestinian refugees registered within the data of the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) within the camps.

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a report, on the event of World Refugee Day, which falls as we speak, that 28.4 % of Palestinian refugees stay in 58 official UNRWA camps.

The report indicated that these camps are distributed as 10 camps in Jordan, 9 camps in Syria, 12 camps in Lebanon, 19 camps within the West Financial institution, and eight camps within the Gaza Strip.

In response to the report, these estimates characterize the minimal variety of Palestinian refugees, given the presence of unregistered refugees. This quantity doesn't embody the Palestinians who have been displaced after 1949 till the eve of the 1967 struggle, in response to UNRWA’s definition, and doesn't embody the variety of those that have been deported after the struggle.

The full variety of Palestinians on this planet on the finish of final yr was about 14 million, which signifies that the variety of Palestinians has multiplied about 10 occasions for the reason that occasions of the 1948 “Nakba”.

Inhabitants estimates point out that by the top of 2021, the inhabitants of the West Financial institution (together with Jerusalem) reached 3.2 million, and about 2.1 million within the Gaza Strip.

With regard to the Jerusalem governorate, the inhabitants reached about 477 thousand individuals on the finish of final yr, of whom about 65% (308 thousand individuals) reside within the areas of Jerusalem, which the Israeli occupation annexed to it forcibly after its occupation of the West Financial institution in 1967.

Primarily based on these knowledge, Palestinians represent 49.9 % of the inhabitants residing in historic Palestine, whereas Jews represent 50.1 % of the overall inhabitants and exploit greater than 85% of the overall space of ​​historic Palestine (which quantities to 27 thousand km2).