Al-Nayrab camp

Al-Nayrab camp is a Palestinian refugee camp that was set up near the village of Al-Nayrab in Aleppo, Syria, 13 km from Hama. Its inhabitants were displaced from the villages of Palestine occupied in 1948. It is the second largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria after Yarmouk.

Population

It has a population of about 40,000. They hail mostly from the upper Galilee areas of the cities of Safdouka, Haifa and Tiberias, and from the villages of Al-Tira, Lubya, Tarhija, Hattin, Kwikat, the River, Safasaw, Al-Tajr, Al-Jash, Ain Ghazal, and others.

Notable people

Al-Nayrab camp is the birthplace of the following people:

• Rima Hassan (born 1992), Palestinian-French jurist