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Al-Shati (Arabic: مخيم الشاطئ), also known as Shati or Beach camp, is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the northern Gaza Strip along the Mediterranean Sea coastline in the Gaza Governorate, and more specifically Gaza City.
Beach refugee camp is the third largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps, and one of the most crowded. Locally known as ‘Shati’, the camp is on the Mediterranean coast in the Gaza City area. 90,173 Palestine Refugees are registered with UNRWA in Beach camp.
Nov 8, 2023 · As of July 2023, the Al-Shati refugee camp is the third largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip with 90,173 Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA there. Bureji camp. Two air strikes hit an entire block of apartments in the Bureij refugee camp, on November 3. According to Gaza's Civil Defense, the air strikes killed at least 15 people.
Refugee camps developed from tented cities to rows of concrete blockhouses to urban ghettos indistinguishable from their surroundings (effectively becoming urban developments within existing cities or by themselves), that house around one third of all registered Palestine refugees.
On 9 October 2023, during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, the Israel Defense Forces conducted an airstrike on al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, destroying four mosques. According to Palestinian media, the attack killed people inside.
Oct 9, 2023 · Israeli airstrikes targeted the Al-Shati and Jabalia refugee camps on Monday, killing a “large number” of people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
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May 21, 2021 · The Shati refugee camp, also known as Beach Camp, is located along Gaza’s Mediterranean coastline and is the third-largest out of the Gaza Strip’s eight camps. Deir el-Balah
