RAMALLAH, June 19, 2025 (WAFA) – The number of Palestinian female refugees in the occupied territories exceeds 1.1 million, the Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWA) said on Thursday.

Marking the occasion of the International Refugee Day, the MoWA issued a report that reviewed the reality of Palestinian female refugees in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the diaspora, given the ongoing genocidal aggression and forceful displacement inflicted by the Israeli occupation.

The report revealed that the number of Palestinian female refugees in the occupied territories exceeds 1.1 million, accounting for approximately 21% of the total population, and more than 1.8 others live in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in overcrowded and dilapidated infrastructure and declining international support.

It also revealed that more than 700,000 Palestinian female refugees are in the war-battered Gaza Strip distributed in eight refugee camps amidst a total collapse of infrastructure due to Israel’s genocidal aggression, that has resulted in killing of 55,706 Palestinians and injuring 130,101 others, at a time when over 500,000 others live in harsh conditions manifest in the lack of essential services and the large-scale destruction of houses in the West Bank. In the course of its aggression in the Jenin refugee camp, not to mention other camps, Israel has destroyed approximately 400,000 houses and threatened to tear down hundreds more.

It showed that the unemployment rates among Palestinian female refugees surged from 34.5% in the pre-October 2023 period to 46.1% in the first quarter of 2025, and that food expenditures account for approximately 35.6% of household income in the refugee camps, demonstrating a fragile state of food security.

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