Dheisheh refugee camp, Bethlehem — Set up in 1949 on land leased from Jordan, Dheisheh camp initially housed refugees who fled or were forced out of 45 villages around Jerusalem and the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Today, it counts some 14,800 inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest of the 19 refugee camps in the West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem.
The late pope John Paul II also visited the camp on a tour of the Holy Land in 2000, calling for an urgent solution to the plight of the millions made homeless after the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.
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