From refugees to displaced: Palestinians in Lebanon from one war to another
Longtime powerless witnesses to the destruction of Gaza, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are now caught in the trap of Israeli bombardments themselves.
A young boy carries a gas canister in the Palestinian camp of Burj al-Barajneh, south of Beirut, on Jan. 31, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient Today)
A car wash station in Jnah, with thin mattresses laid inside and a view of a road that no longer leads anywhere safe, is all that Fadia and about 20 other residents of the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp found in their desperate flight on Friday, Sept. 27. That day, Khaled, her brother-in-law, was looking out the window when, right across from them, a series of massive bombings reduced Hezbollah's headquarters to dust, killing Hassan Nasrallah and dozens of others. “He was filming the scene while screaming,” recalls the sixty-year-old on Wednesday, Oct. 2, asserting that she was not afraid. “In those moments, I stay calm. I’ve already lived through the Israeli invasion of 1982 and the camp wars, during which I worked with civil defense and provided emergency care. But I was single back then. This time, I left for my two...
A car wash station in Jnah, with thin mattresses laid inside and a view of a road that no longer leads anywhere safe, is all that Fadia and about 20 other residents of the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp found in their desperate flight on Friday, Sept. 27. That day, Khaled, her brother-in-law, was looking out the window when, right across from them, a series of massive bombings reduced Hezbollah's headquarters to dust, killing Hassan Nasrallah and dozens of others. “He was filming the scene while screaming,” recalls the sixty-year-old on Wednesday, Oct. 2, asserting that she was not afraid. “In those moments, I stay calm. I’ve already lived through the Israeli invasion of 1982 and the camp wars, during which I worked with civil defense and provided emergency care. But I was single back then. This time, I left for my...
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