Palestinian refugees reject 'sell-out' deal
19 October 2009
By Mahan Abedin BEIRUT - The latest tri-lateral Middle East peace talks have been overshadowed by the United Nations report by Richard Goldstone that accuses both Israel and Hamas...
Drama gives voice to young Palestinians
12 October 2009
Daily Star - UNRWA workshop opens window into refugee children's aspirations
BEIRUT: "If Palestine was free I would play outside with my friends. If Palestine was free I could ask...
Palestinian women denied rights even in camps
5 October 2009
The Daily Star - Palestinian women in one of Lebanon's largest refugee camps say that with no rights in the country or even within their own community, they feel...
Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon:Conditions and Challenges in Bourj al-Barajneh Camp
1 October 2009
Study by the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organization
Beirut, Lebanon
Acknowledgements
This study was funded by Kvinna til Kvinna as part of a larger project aimed at empowering women in Bourj al-Barajneh Camp....
Campaign presses Palestinians' right to return
21 September 2009
BEIRUT: A media drive to highlight the plight of Lebanon's Palestinian refugees was called for by the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC), Thursday. Speaking at an iftar held for members...
After the massacre: Sabra and Shatila, 27 years later
21 September 2009
Ma'an - "That is the old Israeli watchtower and entrance to Sabra," a man on the street pointed, standing in front of the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camps.
Below...
Palestinian refugees protest Nahr al-Bared delay
1 September 2009
Daily Star
BEIRUT: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees staged a protest at the northern camp of Nahr al-Bared on Monday to oppose the government's decision to delay the camp's reconstruction. Protesters...
Marginal errors
3 August 2009
The National - As the rebuilding of Nahr al Bared slowly begins, is Lebanon preparing to bring Palestinian refugees in from the fringes?
Marc Perelman reports -
"This is Lebanon's Guantanamo."...
Gaza: Members of UN fact-finding mission hear testimonies during Geneva hearings
7 July 2009
The fact-finding mission tasked by the United Nations Human Rights Council with probing rights violations committed during the recent Gaza conflict began the Geneva round of public hearings today,...
Lebanon's Palestinian refugees
3 June 2009
Al-Jazeera English -In 1948 hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from or forced to flee their homeland in the wake of the creation of the state of Israel.
While...
Refugee children photograph their lives in camp
2 June 2009
AL-RASHIDIEH REFUGEE CAMP: Through the eyes of many, a Palestinian refugee camp might seem like a place of despair, but the children living in one refugee camp have captured...
Palestinians say Lebanon army soiled Iran food aid
23 March 2009
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, March 21, 2009 (AFP) - Palestinian factions in Lebanon accused the army on Saturday of contaminating Iranian food aid destined for a refugee camp by using sniffer-dogs...
Nahr Al Bared Clinic receives medicine
12 March 2009
Quiet Courage
Dressed as in a white lab coat, with a warm smile and a steady presence, it is easy to imagine Tawfiq Asaad as the doctor he is. But...
Funding fears for Lebanese de-mining
11 March 2009
By Natalia Antelava
BBC News, southern Lebanon
Rasha lost a leg in a cluster bomb blast at the age of 15
Rasha is her mother's biggest helper.
Seated on the floor of their...
Symbolic restart for shattered Lebanon refugee camp
10 March 2009
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, March 9, 2009 (AFP) - The symbolic rebuilding of a Palestinian refugee camp devastated by deadly battles between Islamists and the army in Lebanon 18 months...
Nahr al-Bared Refugees Skeptical About Rebuilding Plans
11 February 2009
Ibtisam Ghneim clearly remembers the day she fled, barefoot and empty-handed, from her home in the devastated Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon during fighting in 2007.
Ghneim is one...
Lebanon refugees fear for future
11 December 2008
By Natalia Antelava
BBC News, Tripoli, Lebanon
Ruins and rubble are all that is left of Nahr al-Bared, a camp for Palestinian refugees near the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Piles of ravaged...
UN agency seeks urgent funds to aid Palestinians uprooted from Lebanese camp
4 November 2008
UN News
The United Nations agency tasked with aiding Palestinian refugees today called on donors to urgently respond to the million appeal it issued last month for funds to...
Down and out in Nahr al-Bared: Displaced are losing patience
3 October 2008
By IRIN News North Lebanon. Inside each airless 18-square-meter unit there is a toilet, a gas burner and tatty mattresses on the bare wooden floor. This is the bedroom,...
