Baqa'a refugee camp

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.The Baqa'a refugee camp (Arabic: البقعة), first created in 1968, lies 20 km north of the Jordanian capital Amman, and is home to around 100,000 Palestinian refugees who are registered as such with the United Nations.

The Baqa'a refugee camp was established in 1968 in Jordan to house Palestinians displaced by the Naksa (Arabic for "the setback"), which occurred after the Israeli capture of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War.

Between June 1967 and February 1968, residents were housed in temporary camps in the Jordan valley.

Two women's programs run courses in sewing, hairdressing, computers, Internet, exercise, English, legal consultancy, and handicrafts.

The camp houses a market, called Souq Al-Hal-lal, where residents can earn some money selling their wares or food, and many also earn a living by traveling by bus in the morning to Amman, where they work as cleaning or maintenance staff.