Bureij camp
Sign in to saveBureij () 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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Vinony's link graph records 241 inbound references to Bureij camp, and connects out to Nuseirat Camp, list of Palestinian refugee camps and Palestine.
The entry is geolocated on the map in PS, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1949 establishments in All-Palestine (Gaza), Deir al-Balah Governorate and Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.
Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- شوكة الصوفي
- Population
- 35000
- Area
- 0.478
- Elevation
- 40
- Image
- IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer working in Al-Bureij-cropped3.jpg
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- native label
- شوكة الصوفي
- Commons category
- Bureij Camp
- name in native language
- مُخَيَّمُ الْبُرَيْجْ
- inception
- 1949-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bureij camp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations