The paper explores the closed spaces of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon as exceptional disciplinary spaces and how living conditions are reduced to bare life in closed spaces. The disciplinary space of Palestinian refugees is explained through the lens of Foucault’s theory in the form of the plague-stricken town – a metaphor of exceptional disciplinary space. It discusses the methods of strict spatial partitioning – in which the spaces create segregation, immobility, marginalizing of one group or population – throughout the history of the Palestinians’ exile. It also analyzes how tense physical discipline increases bodily surveillance and control. The Palestinian docile-body in such an immobile space is undeniable; the Palestinian docile-body is explained through cheap labour in Lebanon. Then, the bio-powers with different strategies either by law, violence or humanitarian actions lead to the exclusionary process of Palestinian refugees. The next point of the paper is about the impact of disciplinary spaces on the Palestinians’ everyday life in which their life is reduced to the bare bones. This bare life is explained through urban and social exclusion that are both factors of basic rights. In the dimension of urban exclusion the author focuses on how the lack of urban public space affects the socio-economic status of the refugees. FAFO’s (Fagbe-vaegelsens Forsknings/Institute for Applied Social Science) survey regarding the basic status of the Palestinian refugees shows that the percentage of poverty in closed disciplinary spaces is higher in comparison with open spaces. The general conclusion is that discipline in Pales-tinian refugee camps fails to produce better economy, education and better society through the controlling of the body and space. Therefore, as long as the typology of disciplinary power and its techniques is systematically “keeping one group of people in the space of exception”, structural violence will be created and structural violence is equal to the violation of human rights in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
