Beirut, May 22 (Xinhua) - Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Thursday to end the presence and operation of weapons held by Palestinian factions outside the control of the Lebanese state, including within Palestinian refugee camps. The meeting between...
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed earlier this week to end the presence and operation of weapons held by Palestinian factions outside the control of the Lebanese state, including within Palestinian refugee camps. "Joint committees have been formed to imp...
In Palestinian refugee camps and gatherings, the provision of housing, water, electricity, refuse, and other services are inadequate and contribute to poor health. The association between physical and mental health and living conditions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was assessed. A cross-sectional...
The 1969 Cairo Agreement, which removed Palestinian refugee camps from under Lebanese state authority, was meant to alleviate Lebanese-Palestinian tensions. Instead, the pact ended up heightening sectarian conflicts by allowing the PLO to establish a state-within-a-state in Lebanon, soon leading to...
In 1969, under Syrian pressure, Lebanon abdicated responsibility and jurisdiction over Palestinian refugee camps on its soil to Palestinian militant factions under Yasser Arafat. In what became known as the “Cairo Agreement,” Lebanon granted Palestinian armed groups the right to effectively use the ...
Familial relations and labor market outcomes: the Palestinian refugees in LebanonFamilial exchangeSolidarityAltruismReciprocityRefugeesLebanonLatent class analysisWe analyze intra-family support among Palestinians living in Lebanon, using detailed household survey data from the refugee camps and Palestinian ...
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon cannot legally work in dozens of professions or own property. According to UNICEF, they are “effectively excluded from enjoying most civil and socio-economic rights” in Lebanon, where many live under appalling conditions in refugee camps that today resemble urban ...
AbstractforThe Current Political, Organizational, and Security Situation in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon | PDF (1.2 MB) 167 Views 16 CrossRef citations Altmetric Article South Lebanon: The War That Never Ends? David Hirst Originally published in Journal of Palestine Studies, Volume: ...
Born in a Palestinian village only eight kilometers from the Lebanese border, Khatib came to Lebanon with his parents as refugees when he was only a months-old baby during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and settled in the Shatila refugee camp ever since. ...
He revealed that in the ongoing conflict in Gaza, 192 UNRWA staff members have been killed, and the agency's many facilities destroyed. The UN official added that Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon suffer from high poverty rates, emphasizing the importance of UNRWA's continued support to help...