Project 48


	A couple sits inside their tent in the newly formed Ein al Hilweh refugee camp in Beirut Lebanon. Photo by Myrtle Winter Chaumeny ©1948. UNRWA Archives
Yarmouk camp. 1950s. Source unknown
Yarmouk camp. Grandfather and Child. Source Unknown
Near Jericho on December 14, 1948. Many Palestinian refugees were forced to live in the open air, among orchards, on their long march into exile. Source: Getty Images
A Palestinian refugee in the al-Amari camp near Ramallah, West Bank. 1950. Source unknown
Palestinian refugees with makeshift structures and tents in the background. 1948. Source: Getty
Palestinian family in a refugee camp in Syria. 1948. UNRWA Archive
Mother and child from the Ramallah region, near Jerusalem. December 16, 1948. Source: Getty Images
Mothers and their children in a refugee camp in Jordan. 1955. Source: Unknown
February 11, 1956. Palestinian children in the Qalandia Refugee Camp in the West Bank, near Ramallah. John Chillingworth. Picture Post. Source: Hulton Archive. Getty Images
Palestinian children made refugees, pictured in 1950. Source: UNICEF
Palestinians in Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, established in Lebanon in 1952. Photo by S. Madver. UNRWA Archives
In the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in 1952. A barracks room is divided into several compartments to give a semblance of privacy to the families living in the camp. © 1952 UNRWA Archive. Photographer Unknown
Fawwar refugee camp before shelters were provided to house Palestinian refugees. It is situated in an isolated and barren region in the occupied West Bank near Hebron. © 1950s. UNRWA Archive
A young Palestinian woman carries her sleeping baby sister in the newly formed Mia Mia refugee camp near the ancient port of Sidon in Lebanon. © 1950 UNRWA Archive. Photographer Unknown
In its first year, UNRWA opened 93 schools across the region with some 35,000 students. Some, as in this picture from a boys' school in Jalazone refugee camp in the West Bank were mere schools in the sand.  West Bank. © 1950 UNRWA Archive. Photographer Unknown
Palestinian children in their UNRWA refugee camp school. 1949. UNRWA Archives
Children at the UNRWA School in Naher El Bared refugee camp in Lebanon. 1950s. UNRWA Archive
Education in emergency tents in Beach camp, Gaza, in the 1950s. UNRWA Archive
A child in the camp.