Site in Beirut originally established for 500 families but is now home to 18,000 Palestinians and 40,000 Syrians
With two waves of refugees - Palestinian and Syria n - and now an internal displacement crisis on it's southern border with Israel, Lebanon is facing severe tests after years of polticial and economic turmoil. Video: Chris Maddaloni. It was originally established, in 1948, for 500 families. It’s estimated that there are some 250,000 Palestinian refugees across, though this isn’t an exact figure.
we can link to what happened in 1948,” says Fraternity director Hassan Al Moustapha. “It’s the same catastrophe, the same crisis ... You can’t imagine the impact these scenes from this horrible war are having on children.” Mukaram Al-Awiti, at her home in the the Burj Al Barajneh refugee camp. Originally born in Palestine, Markaba in 1941, remembers a time before the Nakba. She was eight years old when her family came to the El Buss camp south of Tyre in 1948. They moved to Burj Al Barajneh seven years later. They thought it would only be for a while, she says. “We never went back.” Photograph: Chris Maddaloni
She wants to talk about Gaza. She has a granddaughter, great-grandchildren and friends living there. “They couldn’t get out,” she says. She keeps in touch with them but she worries the calls are bugged. She shows us a video a friend in Gaza just sent of the seashore. She says: “Good morning and we are safe.”
She is given to expressions of defiance. Before we leave, she says: “God bless us and help us for what we have experienced in the Nakba. We are still surviving. We are still here.”
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