ELECTRONIC LEBANON
Human Rights/Development
Lebanon tightens control over Palestinian refugee camps
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon, 19 January 2010
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (IPS) - Recent inter-factional clashes in Lebanon's Ein al-Hilwe refugee camp once more illustrated the fragile security situation in some of its Palestinian camps. Lebanese plans to take over security within the camps are rejected by the Palestinians. Ein al-Hilwe and other refugee camps are home to various Palestinian nationalist groups, but also host different Islamist forces that the Lebanese government considers a threat to the state's security and stability. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Nahr al-Bared's economic recovery hampered by military siege
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon, 18 January 2010
More than two years after the end of the fighting, the war-torn Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, located in northern Lebanon, is far from the model the Lebanese government has promised the camp would become. Instead, reconstruction of the camp is delayed, the area is a military zone with restricted access, and the camp's economy is stalled and residents are largely unemployed. Ray Smith reports for Electronic Lebanon. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
US government's hard line on Hizballah clashes with political reality
Ellen Massey, Electronic Lebanon, 24 December 2009
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman visited Washington last week, for his first visit with President Barack Obama. The meeting was a quick one, tucked in amongst the myriad of domestic issues that are demanding Obama's attention. Yet despite its brevity, the meeting touched upon issues that strike at the heart of the US-Lebanon relationship. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Refugees remain skeptical of Nahr al-Bared reconstruction
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon, 26 November 2009
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (IPS) - More than two years after their refugee camp was destroyed in a war between the Lebanese army and the Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam, Nahr al-Bared refugees Wednesday witnessed the start of the camp's reconstruction. Their relief is mixed with skepticism, however. Established in 1949, the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon's Akkar region has become home to more than 30,000 residents. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Nahr al-Bared reconstruction delays protested
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon, 1 October 2009
Since the end of August, construction equipment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, near the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, has stood unused after the Lebanese State Council granted a two month moratorium for the reconstruction of the camp. Nahr al-Bared, home to approximately 30,000 refugees, was destroyed during a three-month-long battle between the Lebanese army and the militant group Fatah al-Islam in the summer of 2007. Ray Smith reports for Electronic Lebanon. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Shebaa Farms "real issue" is water
Report, Electronic Lebanon, 11 September 2009
BEIRUT (IRIN) - The politics of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, a rugged sliver of mountainside wedged between Lebanon, Israel and Syria, have long overshadowed what some Lebanese environmentalists call "the real issue" of the disputed area: its water resources. Now activists are calling for hydro-diplomacy to take precedence over political maneuvering as the most effective solution to one of the key stumbling blocks to Middle East peace. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Nahr al-Bared a test case for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon, 27 August 2009
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (IPS) - Palestinian refugees at Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon are living under tight military siege two years after a war destroyed the refugee camp. It has now become a test case for a new approach in Lebanon's security policy towards Palestinian refugee camps. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Two years later, reconstruction to start in Nahr al-Bared
Report, Electronic Lebanon, 18 August 2009
NAHR AL-BARED (IRIN) - Two years on from the devastating battle which destroyed their homes and livelihoods, Palestinian refugees from Nahr al-Bared are set to see reconstruction work begin inside the camp's official boundaries. Despite a resilient recovery under way among Palestinians living in the new camp -- the area around the edge of the official Nahr al-Bared refugee camp -- legal hurdles, political wrangling and the recent discovery of archaeological ruins under the site of the old camp have delayed reconstruction work there. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
No law for detained Palestinians
Mona Alami, The Electronic Intifada, 29 July 2009
BEIRUT (IPS) - Palestinian refugee Youssef Shaaban was released from prison early this month -- after serving 16 years in a Lebanese prison for a crime he did not commit. Shaaban was convicted by Lebanon's Justice Council in October 1994 on charge of shooting and killing the first secretary of the Jordanian embassy, Naeb Imran Matiyeh. [MORE]
Human Rights/Development
Video: Nahr al-Bared "Two Years Under Siege"
a-films, Electronic Lebanon, 25 June 2009
Two years after it was destroyed in the wake of fighting between the Lebanese army and a militant group, the fate of the Palestinian refugee camp, Nahr al-Bared remains unclear. This 10-minute film, the co-owner of an ice cream factory, the president of the local traders committee and the imam of the al-Quds Mosque, all Palestinian refugees, speak about the siege and its economic consequences. [MORE]
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