It is located on both sides of a street in the center of the town of Birzeit[1] in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate.
This number began to shrink due to the displacement of residents to neighboring towns or within the village of Birzeit, and the shrinkage of the camp's land area, in addition to the failure of the Refugee Relief Organization to recognize the camp, until in 1967 the population was only 86 people.
At first, the refugees lived in tents, then they built small houses of stone and mud and roofed them with zinc boards.
[4][5][6] In the 1950s, the Refugee Relief Organization (UNRWA) established a basic school for girls to serve the residents of Birzeit camp.
[7] Birzeit camp is still not officially recognized by the United Nations Refugee Relief Agency (UNRWA), nor is it listed with the ministries and departments of the Palestinian Authority government.