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Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (2006-2007)
Manna, spokesperson for the Arab Commission for Human Rights, following a visit to Iraq from June 10–June 17, 2003; Palestinian
Refugees in Iraq, Department of Refugee Affairs, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1999.
31 Internal Displacement, Global Overview or Trends and Developments in 2005, Norwegian Refugee Council and Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre, Geneva, March 2006, p. 3.
32 Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions. Volume I: Socio-economic Situation
of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Oslo: FAFO, Institute for Applied Social
Science, 2003, p. 20.
33 Inside Israel, 39.7% of the Palestinian population is under the age of 15. See Table 2.1.3: Percentage Distribution of Palestinians
in Israel by Age Groups and Sex (2002), Statistical Abstract of Israel 4, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Ramallah, 2003,
p. 140. In the OPT, 45.8% of the Palestinian population is under the age of 15. See Table 3.2.4: Projected Population in the
Palestinian Territory in the End Year by Age Groups and Sex (2002), Statistical Abstract of Israel 4, Palestinian Central Bureau of
Statistics, Ramallah, 2003, p. 191.
34 Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions, p. 20, p. 25.
35 Dalen, Kristen and Jon Pedersen, The Future Size of the Palestinian Population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, FAFO Report 433,
Norway, 2004, p. 7.
36 Infant Mortality Rate in the occupied Palestinian territory, Child Basic Indicators, UNICEF Website, 2005. Statistics for Palestinian-
Arab population in Israel were obtained from “The Arab Population of Israel 2003”, Statistilite 50, Israel Central Bureau of
Statistics.
37 See Occupied Palestinian Territory, Selected Statistics, UNICEF, Jerusalem, updated 21 July 2006.
38 Between 1950 and 1995, the Palestinian population in 16 selected regions of the Middle East grew by an average of 3.3% per
annum. For the last five-year period, the Palestinian population in these 16 countries increased at the highest rate ever, 3.7%
per year. See Adlakha, Arjun L., Kevin G. Kinsella and Marwan Khawaja, Demography of the Palestinian Population with Special
Emphasis on the Occupied Territory. Available at: http://www.undp. org/popin/regional/escwa/popbull/bull43/chapter2.htm.
39 Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions, p. 20.
40 Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions, pp. 114–15.
41 Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions, pp. 114–15.
42 Labour Force Survey: Main Results 2006, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2007.
43 Palestinians in Israel: Socio-Economic Survey, 2004, p. 139.
44 Palestinians in Israel: Socio-Economic Survey, 2004, p. 139.
45 Palestinians in Israel: Socio-Economic Survey, 2004, p. 139.
46 Gross national income in Syria, however, is also lower. In Lebanon, for example, GNI is nearly four times higher than in Syria
and double that in Jordan. Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions, p.
148.
47 Humanitarian Update, Special Focus: Rising Poverty in 2005, Jerusalem: Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
September 2005, p. 1.
48 The fiscal crisis of the Palestinian Authority resulted in severe income losses for about a quarter of its work force and their dependents
– about 25% of the OPT population. UN OCHA, A Year of Decline: The Financial and Institutional Status of the Palestinian
Authority, OCHA Special Forcus, Jerusalem, April 2007.
49 UNRWA, Prolonged Crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Recent Socio-Economic Impacts, Gaza, November 2006, p. iv.
50 Hejoj, Ibrahim and Badran, Adnan, A Socio-economic Analysis of Special Hardship Case Families in the Five Fields of UNRWA
Operations, Relief and Social Department of UNRWA, October 2006, p. 67. Special Hardship Cases (SHCs) are defined as
households having no male adult medically fit to earn an income, and no other identifiable means of financial support above a
defined level.
51 Hejoj, Ibrahim and Badran, Adnan, A Socio-economic Analysis of Special Hardship Case Families, pp. 96–97.
52 Hejoj, Ibrahim and Badran, Adnan, A Socio-economic Analysis of Special Hardship Case Families, pp. 96–97.
53 The Poverty in the Palestinian Territory, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2005.
54 UNRWA, Prolonged Crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, p. 36.
55 UNRWA, Prolonged Crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, p. 37.
56 Statistical Abstract of Palestine 7, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Ramallah, 2006.
57 Jacobsen, Laurie Blome, Finding Means: UNRWA’s Financial Crisis and Refugee Living Conditions, p. 58.
58 “Access to adequate sanitation and water resources is lacking in Syria compared to many other countries in the region. Recent
UNDP estimates (2001) report that some 10% do not have access to proper sanitation (compared to 1% in Jordan and Lebanon)
and 20% do not have access to ‘improved’ water resources (compared to 4% in Jordan and none in Lebanon).” Jacobsen, Laurie
Blome, “Community Development of Palestinian Refugee Camps: Analytical support to Jordan’s preparations for the June 2004
Geneva Conference on the humanitarian need of Palestinian refugees”, The Material and Social Infrastructure, and Environmental