At talbiyah

Talbieh Camp is one of the 10 formally diagnosed UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is placed about 35 kilometres south of Amman, setting it inside the important city area of Al-Jeezah, at once to the west of in which Desert Highway passes thru the town. The refugee camp is also barely south of the greater recently built Queen Alia International Airport.

The camp changed into considered one of six "emergency" refugee camps constructed in 1968 to house approximately 5,000 Palestinians displaced from the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of the Six-Day War. When the camp first opened, most of Talbieh's population have been displaced humans instead of refugees, and the populace consisted of in the main Bedouin. These two demographic factors made Talbieh exceptional from different refugee camps in Jordan. The Red Lion and Sun Society of Iran donated the tents that firstly made up the camp, and later set up concrete shelters. A 2013 take a look at stated that 18 percentage of households in Talbieh have a floor place of less than 8 square metres in keeping with person, with Talbieh's average household ground vicinity per capita being 17 square metres, the lowest of all Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan.