Ein-el-Helweh

• Background:
  • Opened 1948
    on the site of a former British WWII Army Camp.
  • Population: 38,047
    Saida has an additional 36,502 refugees registered with UNRWA outside the two camps for a total of 84,594 refugees. (Shaml, 1996) - 45,764 (UNRWA, 2000)

  • UNRWA's Ein-el-Helweh camp site.

• Pictures of the Ein el Helwe refugee camp in Saida, Lebanon 1995

• Ein el Helwe in 1953

• The film Fifty Years from Palestine (23 minutes - 80kbps - RealMedia)
  with many scenes from Ein-el-Helweh

• External sources
  • Stephen Wallace's pictures from Ein-el-Helweh
  • Ein-el-Helweh Project; National Institution of Social Care & Vocational Training
  • Ali M Zeidan; Environmental Conditions In Palestinian Camps in Lebanon
  • Norwegian People's Help projects