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!Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp's fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps [...]
Also tagged Army, Camp, Fateh al-Islam, lebanese, Nahr al-Bared, palestinian, video, WarBy Ilan Pappe *
If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. [...]
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 Lebanese army has allowed displaced residents to return to some parts of the camp, the fate of other parts of the camp still under the army's [...]
Also tagged Army, Camp, Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared, Palestine, palestinian, Refugee, 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, Refugee, Warby Susan Abulhawa*
Following Netanyahu's much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel's tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel's right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four times. And never mind that Israel has [...]
Perhaps it it time to bring criminal and civil charges against the PLO, USA, Syria and Lebanese Forces for the massacres in Lebanon.
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
As was expected, the Palestinian leadership sitting in Ramallah and around the world did not make a mention of or remembers the massacre of some 5,000 Palestinians civilians massacred in [...]
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, RefugeeOne 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, Refugee, 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, RefugeePalestinian 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, Refugee, 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 [...]
The same plan the Nazis once tried with the Jews (see under the ship St.Louis, 1939). The Israeli plan will be sold as something wonderful for the Palestinians - they just have to move to Jordan and become Jordanians… and the problem will be solved.
Benny Elon's plan is simple… No Palestinians, No Terror. Now, doesn't [...]
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, Refugee
