Gallery: Egypt's forgotten Palestinian refugee community

A baby sits in a quiet corner of Fadl Island, a refugee camp that evolved with time into a small village now inhabited by a third generation of 1948 Palestinian refugees (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Fadl Island (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Haj Farahat, is over 90 and is one of the very few remaining Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt escaping the war in 1948 (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad) (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Amira, over 80 years old, is one of the few remaining Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt escaping the war in 1948. Here she shows her refugee passport which has a picture of her and her children in it. Now she sits with two of her grandchildren beside her (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

A portrait of Haj Hemdan, who is over 90 years old and is one of the very few remaining Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt escaping the 1948 war in Palestine (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Sohair El Said, a 35-year-old housewife, stands in front of her simple home surrounded by her children (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Kids play in a corner of the camp (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

A snapshot of one of the paths leading through Fadl Island (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Kids at play in Fadl Island (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

A young inhabitant of the village bakes bread. Under Sisi’s rule, Palestinian refugees have had their bread supply cut as well as other support systems under the pretext that they aren't "real" Egyptians (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

One of the youngest Palestinian refugees of Fadl Island (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Many of the refugees who live in this refugee camp still possess their original Palestinian passports (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

A local resident of the camp (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Aisha says she is over 100 years old and is one of the original refugees who fled to Egypt following the 1948 war (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)

Some of the children of Fadl Island (MEE/Ibrahim Ahmad)