" ... During Lebanon’s civil war period, when the Palestine Liberation Organization and their Lebanese allies fought Israel from Lebanon, the country’s Palestinian camps suffered terrible massacres, destruction and expulsion at the hands of various parties. Israel’s 1982 invasion of Beirut was followed by the expulsion of PLO fighters from Lebanon later that year, which in turn was followed by the massacre in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, perpetrated by Lebanese militias under the watch of the Israeli army. In 1985, heavy, bitter fighting erupted in Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut as the Syrian-backed Amal party and Palestinian camp militias vied for control. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have always been looked at with a suspicious eye and treated as a security threat by Lebanon’s political class, eager to deflect from their own incompetence and malfunction by placing blame for the country’s problems on a foreign bogeyman. The refugee community, currently lacking any meaningful protection, has also always been vulnerable to the turbulent political tides in Lebanon ... "
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:04:24 +0000
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