Summary
Refugee camp in Gaza whose water and municipal services under the Egyptian Administration are treated in Feldman’s Governing Gaza as a contested case of service jurisdiction between the Gaza municipality, UNRWA and the Administration (Governing Gaza, PDF p.187-189 / printed p.170-172).
Details
- Figure 9 is a 1956 photograph of a water pump in Shati camp, credited to Moshe Pridan, source Israeli National Photo Collection (PDF p.187 / printed p.170).
- Retired municipal employee Abu Jamal recalled that in 1960 the Gaza municipality extended its water network to Shati, and later sewage, road paving and electricity, with UNRWA helping the municipality pay for oil for the water-pump motors; Khaled ‘Emad insisted the municipality provided services to Shati “from the very beginning” of his career from 1960 (PDF p.188-189 / printed p.171-172).
- The only archival document found on the question, a police report on an open meeting (nadwa) in Shati in June 1966 attended by the governor-general and the mayor, records residents requesting street lighting, drinking water, paved roads, additional rations and more police; the governor-general promised to meet some of these requests and explained the difficulty in fulfilling others, and the mayor said the municipality had cut off all the assistance it had provided and had asked UNRWA two months prior for drinking water and electricity without response — so the camp’s actual service status cannot be said with certainty (PDF p.189 / printed p.172).