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Lebanese Blogger and Illustrator Maya Zankoul shares her story of watching a mother crossing a very crowded and dangerous highway with her two children on foot.

Source: Reuters AIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, Feb 15 (Reuters) - One person was killed on Monday in a clash between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, ...

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Displaced Palestinians see new hope with NRC's reconstruction project in the Mohajareen settlement, which was destroyed by fighting in northern Lebanon in 2007. With his wife and ten children, ...

Date: 28 Sep 2009
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

JustImage: Matthew Cassel

Anger and protests erupted in response to the Lebanese Governments decision to suspend the reconstruction of the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp.

Hundreds protested in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli last week against the suspension, but as Lebanon-based photojournalist and blogger, Michael Cassel, explains on his blog, JustImage, even that was a difficult process:

JustImage: Matthew Cassel

Hundreds of refugees from the camp and their supporters gathered in Tripoli, the closest major city to Nahr al-Bared. After being denied a permit to protest at the police station near the citys center, organizers changed the location to an area far away from symbolic government buildings and people.

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BEIRUT Thursday, April 16, 2009 (IRIN) - Eighty Ethiopian women have been in Tripoli Women’s Prison in north Lebanon for over a year, accused of not having a passport which was either taken from them when they started as domestic workers, or which they never had in the first place.

KAFR BADA Monday, May 18, 2009 (IRIN) - For the last 30 years Ali Mohammed Hindawi, aged 84, has lived alone in a rusty tin shack in south Lebanon, without water, electricity or a toilet, sleeping among chickens, flies and litter, and separated from his family by displacement and poverty.

Date: 10 Mar 2009
Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Source: Reuters By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, March 4 (Reuters) - Sadeq Sadeq gazed at bulldozers clearing rubble from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, ...

Source: Reuters March 4 (Reuters) - Rebuilding is due to start on March 9 at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, razed in 2007 during battles between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants. Here are ...

Source: IRIN As he picked plastics and paper off the rubble-filled conveyor belt, Issam Sayyed indicated to a white house behind him pock-marked with bullet holes and with its roof caved in. "That's my home," said the Palestinian refugee displaced from the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, which was ruined in a 15-week war last year between the army and Islamist insurgents.

World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe office (MEERO) By Patricia Mouamar An education project in Lebanon’s Dbayeh Palestinian refugee camp has opened new horizons for children with learning difficulties and highlighted the need for access to quality education.

Source: IRIN Life for 300 Palestinian families and their thousands of other kinsmen displaced from Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon - some for the third time in their lives - might very soon be getting a lot worse, in large part due to the neglect of the region's Arab states.

Source: Reuters AIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Three Palestinians were killed in fighting between rival factions at a refugee camp in south Lebanon on Monday, security sources said. The fighting began ...

Source: IRIN They may have been uprooted "more than 40 times" over the years since Lebanon's Civil War began in 1975, but Hussein Mohammed and his family say they have rarely felt as threatened as they do today.

Source: IRIN Hundreds of Shia Allawi families who have fled the upsurge in violence since 25 July between the Jebel Mohsen (mainly Allawi) and Bab al-Tabbaneh (mainly Sunni) neighbourhoods of Tripoli are living without basic necessities and have yet to receive support.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Over 24,000 people, mainly Palestine refugees and a small number of Lebanese remain displaced from Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon following three months of fighting there in 2007 between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army.

Source: Reuters EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, July 20 (Reuters) - The leader of a small Sunni Islamist group has died from wounds suffered in a gunbattle with members of the Fatah faction at a Palestinian refugee camp in ...

Date: 20 Jul 2008
Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur

Source: Reuters (Increases death toll to two) EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, July 19 (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a ...