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The Palestine refugee problem was created in the course of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. When the UN voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, Palestinian Arabs and Jews opposed the plan. The war that ensued was won by Israel, creating a large number of Arab refugees. Estimates account for more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who fled or were forced out of their homes during the fighting. These refugees often fled to surrounding Arab countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. However the majority also fled to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, mainly living in camps. Conditions in the camps are generally poor with a high population density, cramped living conditions, shortage of food supplies, poor housing in the form of tents, and inadequate basic infrastructure such as roads and sewers resulting in the death and sickness of a number of the...

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