[1][4] Originally, the camp consisted of barracks used by allied troops during World War II, but it quickly grew outside of those, due to the number of refugees.
[4] The Syrian Air Force engaged in raids inside the camp to target Hamas militants there, in the early 2010s.
[7] A paramilitary group, called the 'Liwa al-Quds', was formed with people from the camp during the Syrian civil war and was supportive of Bashar al-Assad.
[11] They hail mostly from the upper Galilee areas of the cities of Safdouka, Haifa and Tiberias, and from the villages of al-Tira, Lubya, Tarshiha, Hattin, Kweikat, al-Nahr, Safsaf, al-Tajr, Jish, Ain Ghazal, and others.
[citation needed] It is considered to be one of the poorer Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, alongside Ein Al-Tal, which is an offroot of Neirab.