Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan ( ar, معسكر تل السلطان) is one of eight

Palestinian refugee camps Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian ...

in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate just north of Rafah city and Rafah Camp. It was established mainly to absorb refugees repatriated from

Canada Camp Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF I), which formerly had a camp at the lo ...

. UNRWA does not make a distinction between Rafah Camp and Tall as-Sultan.UNRWA Rafah refugee camp profile
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Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; ar, الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures a ...

2006 mid-year estimate for Tall as-Sultan is 24,418. On 26 May 2024, it was struck by Israeli airstrikes, killing at least 50 people, most of whom were women and children.

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Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip Rafah Governorate {{Palestine-geo-stub