In one area of Bethlehem (Al-Azza), for example, UNRWA began building shelters in 1958, meaning that the first ten years were lived in tents. During the 1950s and 1960s, the camp remained a single-story urban form, its monotony strongly reflecting the plan to return to the destroyed villages and the lack of economic resources for expansion.
Review of Shelter Policy 1960-1975, RE 410/2 (18.4.1964)
Qussay AbuAaker, Naba' Al Assi, Aysar Al Saifi, Murad Odeh, The Garden (Dheisheh: Campus in Camps, 2012), ➝.
Dheisheh Nomination Assembly (March 23, 2016).
Dheisheh Nomination Assembly (February 23, 2016).
Women have had a crucial role in improving living conditions in the camp and in Palestine in general.

