Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan
The Zaatari refugee camp in north Jordan is home to 115,000 Syrians. AFP
The residents of Al Zaatari have created the camp's own economy. Reuters
The refugee camp, about 80km north of Amman, the Jordanian capital, in November 2021. AFP
A vendor at his shoe stall in the camp. AFP
A Syrian barber at work in the camp. According to latest UNHCR data, the camp, the largest of two camps in Jordan, currently hosts 79,978 registered Syrian refugees. EPA
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, left, with a Syrian refugee family during his visit to Zaatari, which is near the Jordanian city of Mafraq and close to the border with Syria. Reuters
Syrians on the camp's main commercial alley, known as the Champs Elysee by the refugees. Many of them dream of a better life in Europe because conditions in the dusty desert camp are poor – no electricity, little drinking water, and scorching summer temperatures. AFP
The Zaatari camp in October 2022. According to the UN, about half the 80,000 refugees there at the time were children. The UN has 675,000 Syrian refugees registered in Jordan, but Amman estimates the real figure to be about twice that and says the cost of hosting them is more than $12 billion. AFP
The war in Syria has made refugees of more than half the country's population. The conflict has killed more than 320,000 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. AFP
Syrian refugee children play football at the refugee camp in Mafraq. AP
One of the commercial lanes in the refugee camp. Reuters
A view of the sprawling UN-run camp for Syrian refugees. AFP
