Mar Elias
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This article is about refugee camp in Lebanon. For other uses, see Mar Elias (disambiguation).
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.
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List of Palestinian refugee camps
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