Nuseirat ( ar, مخيّم النصيرات) is a Palestinian refugee camp located five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah. The

refugee camp A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced peo ...

is in the

Deir al-Balah Governorate The Deir el-Balah Governorate ( ar, محافظة دير البلح '), also referred to as Central Gaza Governorate ( ar, محافظة الوسطى) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine in the central Gaza Strip which is administered by Palest ...

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. According to the

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, the Refugee Camp had a population of 64,423 in mid-year 2006. The Nuseirat camp was named after the local Nuseirat tribe, part of the larger

Hanajira Al-Hanajira (also Arab al-Hanajira, al-Hanajra or el-Hanajreh) was one of the five principal Bedouin tribes inhabiting the Negev Desert prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Its territory stretched north-south between Deir al-Balah and Gaza City, ...

confederation, that historically dominated the area between Deir al-Balah and Gaza. Most refugees came from the southern areas of

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such as Beersheba and the coastal plain. Prior to the camp's establishment by UNRWA, the roughly 16,000 original refugees settled in the grounds of a former British military prison at the site.Nuseirat Refugee Camp
UNRWA.

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