"this warren of cinder blocks, cement and corrugated tin roofs is where 120,000 of Jordan's Palestinian refugees live"

The Baqa’a Refugee Camp is located just 20 km north of the Jordanian capitol Amman, and is home to an estimated 120,000 Palestinian refugees.

Baqa’a was just one of six “emergency” camps set up in Jordan in 1968, to accommodate the Palestinian refugees and displaced persons, who left the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli six day war.

The camp itself is the largest in Jordan and when it was first established, according to the United Nations had around 5,000 tents for around 26,000 refugees.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, spoke at the Baqa'a Refugee Camp in the 1980's:"Having been round a number of the streets and called into some of your homes, I have seen the conditions under which you are living and may I say I marvel at the health and cheerfulness of the children."

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