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There are twelve Palestinian camps in Lebanon, the area of each remained as it is since they were established.
They spread in five regions (Beirut, Sidon, Tripoli, Sour and the Bekaa), all were established after the Nakba in 1948 and before the setback in 1967.
1-Ain El-Helwa:
the largest refugee camp in Lebanon.
It was established in 1948 in the southern city of Sidon, a distance of approximately 3 kilometers from the heart of the city. The population of the camp was 70 thousands in 2000, in 2003 it raised to about 73354.
Today, the total area of the camp is approximately 420 acres. Ain El-Helwa camp, like the rest of the camps in Lebanon, suffers lack of services in various aspects, not to mention the conflicts that swept the refugee camps in Lebanon, which was called 'the camps war'.
2- Rashidiyah: located about 15 km east of the city of Sour, and 8 km south of Beirut. It was established in 1948 and covers an area of about 267.2 with a population of 25580 according to 2003 statistics.
3- Burj Barajneh: established in 1948 on an area of 104 dunums and considered one of the largest camps in the capital. It is located on the main road to Beirut's international airport. It is in a condition of misery and poverty and its streets are packed with mud and crowded with its inhabitants, it looks like shanty towns.
The streets are 500 meters long and 400 meters wide. Many families that live in Burj el-Barajneh camp came from Tarsheeha, north of Palestine, before 1948 and constitute 40% of the population of the camp.
The camp's population has reached in 2003 to 20405. This camp is suffering from a horrible crowding, to the point that 13 people would sleep in one room in an area of 4 × 4 meters. Diseases, such as tuberculosis, scabies, diarrhea (especially among children) and lice spread in the camp.
When <> movement surrounded the camp in 1985 people ate grass and cats and dogs as everyone who tried to go out of the camp were killed.
4- North Tower: the camp was established in 1955 on an area of 136 acres. It is located approximately 5 km east of the city of Sour, with a population of 20 thousands people.
5- Sabra and Shatila camps: established in 1949 in the province of Beirut on the west coast of the city near the Kuwaiti embassy.
Today the area of the camp is 39.6 acres.
It should be noted that 3 thousands of refugees, mostly women, were slaughtered in the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which lasted three days during which the Zionist army shed lights on the camp and watched the massacre carried out by the ''Kata'eb'' who killed every Palestinian who owned the blue card.
The 2003 statistics shows that the total registered refugee population is 12235 people. 6- Beddawi:
This is the second camp in the region of Tripoli; it is 5 km north of the city.
The camp was established in 1956 on an area of 200 acres and has a population of 18 thousand people.
The camp like many other camps, witnessed the migration of many families to Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
7- Bass: this camp is close to the city of Sour, it was established in 1949 on an area of 80 acres.
The camp is witnessing an increase in the population which rose to 10607 people in the statistics of 2003.
8 - Galilee (Wavell): located on the outskirts of the city of Baalbek, it was established in 1949 on an area of 43.44 acres, its population is about 6705 people according to 1995 statistics, they rose to 7553 according to 2003 statistics.
9- Mar Elias: Situated in the heart of the capital Beirut, it was established in 1952 on an area of 54 acres and a population of about seven thousand, it is a Christian Palestinian refugee camp near the sports stadium in Beirut.
It was safer than the Burj Barajneh camp as it is located in an area that is controlled by the Druze.
10- Mieh Mieh :
located east of the city of Sidon on a hill 5 km away from the city, established in 1948 on an area of 54 acres, its population was boat 5037 people in 2003. It will be recalled that in 1982 half of the camp was removed by the Lebanese Forces and more than 3 thousands of its people moved to nearby camps.
11- Dhabia: this camp was established in Beirut in 1956 on an area of 13.6 acres and according to 2003 statistics it has a population of about 4211 people.
12- Nahr al-Bared:
The second-largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon after the camp of Ein el-Hilweh, it is located about 15 km north of the city of Tripoli, it was established in 1949 on an area of 198.
13. The camp was under constant shelling for more than a hundred days in the summer of 2007, by the Lebanese army to force the Salafi group calling itself «Fatah al-Islam» and holed up in the camp to surrender.
The fighting between the two parties ended to the displacement of the entire camp population of 35 thousands refugees Palestinians and the destruction of up to 80% of the camp infrastructure and houses.