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Bureij camp

Bureij () is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the central Gaza Strip east of the Salah al-Din Road in the Deir al-Balah Governorate. The camp's total land area is 529 dunums and in 2017, it had a population of 28,024 with 28,770 registered refugees. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) 2017 census listed a population of 15,491 in the surrounding Bureij municipality apart from the camp population.

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Settlement.name: Bureij Camp
Settlement.translit_lang1: Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_type: Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_type1: Latin
Settlement.translit_lang1_info1: Breij (official)al-Burayj (unofficial)
Settlement.type: Refugee Camp
Settlement.image_skyline: 2018 Gaza border protest.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: 2018 Gaza border protests, Bureij
Settlement.pushpin_map: Palestine
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Bureij Camp within Palestine
Settlement.image_map: Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps in the OCHA OpT September 2023 map of the Gaza Strip.png
Settlement.map_caption: Map of the camp, as well as the two other adjacent camps of Nuseirat and Maghazi
Settlement.grid_name: Palestine grid
Settlement.subdivision_type: State
Settlement.subdivision_name: State of Palestine
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Deir al-Balah
Settlement.established_title: Founded

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The camp was established in 1949 with a population of 13,000 Palestinians from the broader Gaza area. A small percentage of the refugees were housed in the British army barracks but the bulk of them were housed in tents. The UNRWA built concrete homes in 1950 to replace the tents.