Mar Elias

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Mar Elias (Arabic: مار الياس‎) is a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, by Beirut. The camp is exclusively Christian, when the refugees arrived the Christian Palestinians asked for a camp separate from the Muslim Palestinians, the UN complied and established Mar Elias.^{[citations needed]}

In 2002 there were 1,406 registered refugees in the camp.

[edit] See also

List of Palestinian refugee camps

[edit] External links and references

• http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/lebanon/marelias.html