As a result of the conflict of 1948-1949, at least 100,000 Palestinians ended up fleeing to Lebanon, 470,000 to the West Bank (controlled at the time by Jordan), about 84,000 to Syria, and about 120,000 to Gaza (controlled at the time by Egypt.) In 1967, a new wave of Palestinian refugees was created when Israel invaded and occupied the West Bank and Gaza, causing around 300,000 Palestinians to flee. Of these, approximately 180,000 were first-time refugees, while the remainder were 1948 refugees uprooted for the second time. Pictured above, the beginnings of the the Souf camp established for Palestinian refugees fleeing to Jordan in 1967. About 5 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the UN today, many of them still in camps that were first established in the year or two following the conflict of 1948.
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