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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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