The Sabani family lost everything when they fled the fighting in 2007 and now live in a tiny, two-roomed home in Badawi refugee camp Palestinian Plight In Northern Lebanon Refugee Camps -- BBC
It is sometimes controversially said that Palestinian refugees in Lebanon live in worse conditions than those during the Israeli occupation in Gaza.
There is no better place to witness and document the plight of Lebanon's refugees than Nahr al-Bared.
It was such conditions that contributed to the destruction of the refugee camp, in 2007, as troops from the Lebanese army fought with Islamist militants.
In May of that year, fierce fighting erupted here - a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon.
The Lebanese army bombarded militants from Fatah al-Islam, who had taken root in the squalid, hopeless conditions.
The camp was destroyed and 27,000 Palestinian refugees fled, among them one remarkable family.
Read more ....
My Comment: These Palestinian refugees will never be permitted back to the Israel/Palestine that they remember, and they will never be accepted by Lebanese society as a whole because of who they are. With few options (none actually), it will only be a matter of time before the Islamic radicals take root .... again.
No comments:
Post a Comment