Amman New Camp, usually known as the Al-Wehdat or Al-Wihdat camp (), which is located in the Hay Al Awdah neighbourhood in southeast Amman, the capital city of Jordan, occupies a . At first refugees lived in tents.

For almost fifteen years, until the 1970s most families were living in shelters and tents. In terms of crowding, Fafo Foundation (FAFO) uses the square metre per capita, with Wihdat as one of the "lowest median per capita square metres of living space."

Demographics

By 2010, there were 48,000 inhabitants which included about "8,000 local gypsies, Egyptian labor migrants, Iraqi refugees and other low-income non-Jordanian groups." By 2017, of the 5 million registered Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, 2 million were in Jordan.

Major challenges

UNRWA, cited a 2013 Fafo Foundation report, said that Amman New camp is ranked second out of the ten Palestine refugee camps in Jordan in terms of poverty and female employment.

Al-Wehdat SC

The Al-Wehdat Sports Club was originally established at the camp in 1956 by the UNWRA as the Al-Wehdat Youth Center. By 1975 Al-Wihdat won the Jordanian league. were translated into English in 2017. Nasrallah's parents took refuge in Al-Wehdat camp after they were uprooted from their home in Al-Bruij near Jerusalem in 1948. Nasrallah, who was born and grew up in the camp, studied at UNWRA schools there and the UNRWA Teacher Training College in Amman.

Nihad Awad, who is the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has been interviewed frequently by Fox, the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, C-Span, and other mainstream media outlets.

Explanatory notes

References

  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Amman New Refugee Camp
  • Amman New Camp, articles from UNWRA
  • Photos from Amman New Camp
  • Al-Wihdat Refugee Camp: Between Inclusion and Exclusion, Jadaliyya