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Ain al-Hilweh (Arabic: عين الحلوة, lit. meaning "sweet natural spring"), also spelled as Ayn al-Hilweh and Ein El Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It had a population of over 70,000 Palestinian refugees but swelled to nearly 120,000, [ 1 ] as a result of influx of refugees from Syria since 2011.
Some 800 people displaced from Ein el-Hilweh are staying in shelters set up by the agency, Klaus said, including at schools in the area surrounding the camp that were supposed to go back into ...
Three days of clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp have pitted members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party against Islamist groups accused of gunning down ...
Earlier this summer, there were several days of street battles in the Ein el-Hilweh camp between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement and Islamist groups after Fatah accused the ...
Ain al-Hilweh is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Sidon District.It was established in 1948 after the Palestinian exodus of the First Arab–Israeli War. [6]In the 1980s, most Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon were dominated by Syrian-backed Palestinian groups.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clickable map of the Palestinian refugee camps Palestinian refugee camps were first established to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight during the 1948 Palestine war. Camps were established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in ...
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, however stated that four people were killed and 60 others wounded. Islamist factions in a troubled Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon say they ...
Days of fighting in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon left at least six people dead and over 50 others wounded, according to medical officials and state media ...