...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...displaced several hundred families, destroyed up to 400 houses and left half the camp still off-limits and considered "a hot area," a senior U.N. official said.
| This is why no one in their vicinity gets to have nice things. |
The fighting between members of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
' Fatah group and forces of Evil of Islamic groups at Ain el-Helweh near the southern port of Sidon that began July 30 and ended Aug. 3 left 13 people dead and dozens maimed.
Klaus said "the camp remains unstable," with the Lebanese military barring access to half the camp because armed fighters are still positioned there and it's not safe though hostilities have ceased.
She told U.N. journalists at a video presser that the U.N. agency, known as UNRWA, has reopened services in about 50% of the camp which includes one health center, but a school complex for over 3,000 children was also damaged.
"We've been collecting garbage, disinfecting, and started removing rubble," she said, and when the other half of the camp reopens the first thing will be to remove unwent
kaboom!ordnance and remnants of war.
Ain el-Helweh, which is home to over 50,000 Paleostinian refugees, is one of a dozen refugee camps in Lebanon. The country has between 200,000 and 250,000 Paleostinian refugees, half living in camps and the rest in the vicinity, she said.