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63 year anniversary of Al-Nakba In the morning of 15/05/2011 we ridded with our families a 33 passenger autobus to go to the Lebanese borders with Palestine to commemorate the 63 anniversary (day of Al Nakba). We moved at 9am and arrived around 12pm. When we arrived to Bent Jbeil, we found hundreds of autobuses holding thousands of people coming from everywhere in Lebanon, mostly are Palestinians coming from Palestinian refugees camps all around Lebanon, and a lot of Lebanese who advocate the Palestinian cause. The number of people is uncountable. Unfortunately, we were from the people who didn’t have the opportunity to reach Maroun Al-Ras, the village indirect contact with the borders, because we stuck in a big traffic of autobuses and people waiting their turn to reach the village, which is far away around 5km. Many of enthusiastic people went on foot and climbed the mountain to reach the borders. They were children, youth, elder. “What I remembered, an old man who couldn’t walk, he insisted to go walking and then a lot of youth hold him on shoulders and passed him through a bumpy road”. |
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After waiting our turn for more one hour and a half, the people started talking in-between that there are a lot of injured persons and martyrs because Israeli enemies on the other side start shouting the people who tried to cross the borders. From our location where we stayed, we started to see the movement of ambulances carrying injured people and martyrs and transport them to a nearest field hospital in Bent Jbeil. After, I saw doctors from Al-Shifaa clinic in Naher Al Bared Camp running to the hospital to volunteer there. Then I went with with Dr Mahmud, (general practitioner working in HCA) to the hospital to see the injured people and martyrs and to be volunteer in the service of the hospital. |
When we arrived there, we found a big disaster. A lot of injured persons spread everywhere in the small hospital and the medical staff were overloaded with consecutive cases coming every 5 minutes. Dr. Mahmud join the medical team and I, by my turn, tried to organize the transport of injured people coming from Saida area by the ambulance of Human Call Hospital. They transported four cases from Bent Jbeil to PRCS hospital in Saida. The total number of injured people received by this hospital were 85 case and the martyrs were 6. Two or three of the martyrs are from Ein Al-Hilweh Camp. The hospital was working as an evacuating place and triage area for life saving and then transfer them to other hospitals. |
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What we knew from some of the conscious patients of how they described what has happened, that the Lebanese army was on the borders standing between demonstrators and the other side in order to prevent people from cross over. Then, a group of enthusiastic youth defeated the Lebanese army and tried to cross the borders and cut the thorn wire. The Israeli enemies start shouting everyone tried to cross the borders and throw bombs of gas to intimidate the people. Then the battle start… I think it is a historical day, and our people shows their willing and determination to return to their original land in the time that the whole world stand idly watching the abuse and organized crimes carried out by Israel against our Palestinian people. Mustafa Abu Atieh |
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minor contribution makes the difference for Palestinian Refugees |
Our group ‘the Right to Return’ organises, in cooperation with Intal, solidarity with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. From the 2nd until the 18th of July 2008 we organised a work camp in Lebanon, together with nine young Belgians. We stayed in Nahr-El-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that was entirely devastated after a three-months-firing by the Lebanese army.
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team of youngsters have put in their greatest effort trying to make
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equipment operational. Al Shifaa is a small emergency hospital and
the only 24/7 medical service provided in the present camp.
We have been working together with about fifteen young Palestinians belonging to the Palestinian Youth Centre, a small but brave centre created to animate local children, youngsters and to support the inhabitants. We contributed to realise their projects and every single euro donated was effectively allocated. Our main concern is now to ensure the hospital and youth centre’s liveability. After all, they are indispensable for the Palestinians whom recently returned to their devastated camp. |
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both the Al Shifaa hospital and the youth centre, your financial
support can make the difference in the life-and-death struggle for
their existence. |
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Camp Nahr el Bared nearby Tripoli (Northern Lebanon) The Nahr el Bared refugee camp used to be one of the most prosperous camps in Lebanon, sparkling with life until the fundamentalist group Fatah-al-Islam entrenched itself inside the camp after barbarously attacking a Lebanese checkpoint. The Lebanese government decided to eliminate the Islamic fraction by bombing and shooting the camp. About 30.000 inhabitants had to flee and were received by their families in other camps, in schools, garages or tents.
The Nahr-el-Bared shelling lasted approximately 4 months, from 20th of May until the 2nd of September 2007. The oldest part of the camp is still in ruins and is completely cut off by the Lebanese army. About 2000 of the 6000 families have already returned to the new part of the camp, that was greatly |
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Last year, the Palestinian doctor Tawfik and
Melad –a nurse in the Al Shifaa clinic- remained in the besieged
camp, one month after every inhabitant had left. Moreover, it was
Al Shifaa’s medical team that was the first to return to the
camp to support the ‘homecoming’ families from the very
beginning.
Unfortunately, the original Al Shifaa hospital was destroyed in the attack and the medical team is momentarily accommodated in a small, hired garage. However, paying the rent has become unbearable cost and we therefore prepared and installed their new ‘headquarters’ (8 UN-containers) by building a brick fence, the pouring concrete and supplying water, electricity and air conditioning. On the 1st of August Tawfik and his medical team could finally move in their newly-built accommodations. |
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