Unity with the Palestinian Refugees!
Building links with the Baqa'a Refugee Camp!


Meeting!
Building Links With Al-Baqa'a Camp.
Wednesday 15th December.
The Friends Meeting House,
Paradise Street, Liverpool.
Time: 7-00 pm

Baqa'a camp was one of six "emergency" camps set up in 1968 to accommodate Palestinian refugees and displaced persons who left the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The camp, which is the largest in Jordan, is situated about 20 km north of Amman. When Baqa'a was set up it was already a large camp with 5,000 tents for 26,000 refugees on an area of about 1.4 square kilometres, today Baqa'a Camp houses around 100,000 (and more) Palestinian refugees.

This meeting has been called to see how we in the United Kingdom can help build solidarity with the people of Baqa'a Refugee Camp and other refugee camps within the Middle East.

The meeting will be addressed by a member of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign, who has recently visited the Baqa'a refugee Camp in Jordan and is currently planning a delegation to return to the camp in 2005. Also speaking at the meeting will be a member of the Warwick University Friends of Palestine, who will speak on the Right to Education Campaign by Birzeit University and the Liverpool University Friends of Palestine.

This meeting has been called by the Middle East Cultural Association and the Iraq Solidarity Campaign.

For further written details please write to:
Middle East Cultural Association,
C/o ISC (UK).
Bridge 5 Mill,
22a Beswick Street
Ancoats,
Manchester,
M4 7HR.