* وبعد حرب 1948 وهجرة الفلسطينيين إلى دول الجوار تم استقبال عدة آلاف منهم وإنزالهم في ثكنات قرب المطار كان قد أقامها الجيش الفرنسي لجنوده وسمي المكان بعدئذ بــ مخيم النيرب للاجئين الفلسطينيين.
After the 1948 war, Palestinians migrated to the neighboring countries which have been receiving several thousand of them and landed in the barracks near the airport that had been brought by the French army to its soldiers and called the place then Nayrab camp for Palestinians refugees.