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Lebanon sets up a safe haven for trapped camp civilians
2007-06-28
A Palestinian camp official says a safe haven has been set up inside a bombed-out refugee camp in Lebanon for civilians trapped by almost 40 days of fighting between the Lebanese Army and Islamist militants. Sporadic gunfire erupted around the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon on Wednesday but there were no major Army bombardments of positions of the Fatah al-Islam militia. Fewer than 1,000 civilians are believed to still be inside the camp, which housed about 31,000 refugees before the deadly stand-off erupted on May 20, the deadliest internal feuding since the civil war.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Might it not be better to just force other camps to accept the overflow? Pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-28 16:02  

#1  If the residents settle elsewhere, will that new "camp" be covered by the agreements that gave the existing Palestinian camps so much autonomy?
Posted by: James   2007-06-28 01:40  

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