If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The three-month-long war between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon ended on 2 September 2007. While the [...]
Also tagged Army, Camp, Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, Refugees, WarIn may 2007, the battle between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by september 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the "old camp", the core of Nahr [...]
Also tagged Camp, Fatah Al-Islam, Fateh al-Islam, lebanese, Lebanon, Palestine, palestinian, Refugees, WarIsrael has turned Gaza into a massive prison, and is choosing to prolong the cycle of state terror and prisoner resistance that goes with that, writes Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel
"We have a great opportunity now in Gaza to smash and flatten them…[We] should destroy thousand of houses, tunnels and industries, and kill as many terrorists [...]
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, [...]
Also tagged Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Nahr-el-Bared, palestinian, RefugeesOne year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be [...]
Also tagged Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, palestinian, palestinian-refugees, Refugees, videoEarly in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leave their homes, gather in [...]
Also tagged Camp, camps, harvest, Lebanon, orange, palestinian, palestinian-refugees, Refugees"The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel was not an unintended consequence, or fortuitous occurrence, or even a 'miracle', as Israel's first president Chaim Weizmann later proclaimed; it was the result of long and meticulous planning," Ilan Pappe, Professor of Political Science at Haifa University, in his book 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine'.
This week, the [...]
Palestinian youth in the Dheisheh refugee camp talk about what it means for them to be a refugee, their identities and hopes for the future.
Video source: ibdaa194.org
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Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5dc8w_refugeehood-the-inheritance_news
It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]
Also tagged camps, Google, Google Earth, Palestine, palestinian, Refugees, UN, UNHCRTo explain the initiative a website has been created:
http://www.return08.com/Eng/index.html
In the website it is proposed that the initiative is implemented on the 14th May, 2008 (to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1948 war).
"Marking 60 years of dispossession and homelessness, it will be a day for the international community and the Palestinian people to carry [...]
PA-Israeli document liquidating RoR unveiled
The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper has unveiled in its late edition on Monday a "serious" PA-Israeli document that aims at liquidating the right of return of millions of Palestinian refugees to their homeland in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands.
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A number of alternatives were suggested by the document to solve the refugees' issue, including [...]
Some 4.4 million Palestinians remain refugees nearly 60 years after the start of the 1948 war. About one third of these refugees still live inside camps. Examples of conditions in various countries: Jordan hosts about 1.8 million Palestinian refugees including some 130,000 people who fled from Gaza in 1967. These refugees, as opposed to most [...]
Also tagged Camp, Middle East, Palestine, palestinian, Refugees"I managed to escape the fighting with my wife and kids and my aunt," Mohammad begins. "But as soon as we got out the camp, the soldiers separated us into two groups. They let the women and children go, and handcuffed the men." Then, Mohammad says, they were blindfolded and driven away in a large [...]
Also tagged Lebanon, Nahr-el-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, RefugeesFollowing is a letter from a Bahraini friend working with a NGO providing emergency relief to newly displaced refugees from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp in the North of Lebanon:
Dear friends,
Hope this email finds you safe and well.
From the Shatila (Palestinian) refugee camp in Beirut, I am working at an NGO called the Children [...]
Sari Chreih and Razan Al-Ghazzawi – Interview with a Physician on Nahr el-Bared Tragedy
Q: What is your name and profession?
A: My name is Saleh Bhar and I am a pediatrician at American University Hospital (AUH, Beirut, Lebanon).
Q: We learned that you lost a member of your family during the bombings, which day was that?
A: During [...]
