LEBANON: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES ARE BEING CARED FOR BY UNITED NATIONS WORKS AND RELIEF AGENCY (UNWRA)

Record ID: 275010

  • Title: LEBANON: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES ARE BEING CARED FOR BY UNITED NATIONS WORKS AND RELIEF AGENCY (UNWRA)
  • Date: 24th August 1994
  • Summary: BEIRUT AND DAMOUR, LEBANON (AUGUST 24, 1994) BEIRUT 1. GV REFUGEES SEATED ON PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY (UNWRA) COMPOUND AFTER BEING EVICTED FROM A HOTEL 0.06 2. CU SMALL CHILD ASLEEP (2 SHOTS) 0.12 3. GV PEOPLE ASLEEP ON PAVEMENT BEHIND BUS 0.15 4. GV REFUGEES ON PAVEMENT 0.19 5. GV UNITE
  • Embargoed: 8th September 1994 13:00
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  • Location: BEIRUT AND DAMOUR, LEBANON
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  • Country: Lebanon ASIA MIDDLE EAST
  • Reuters ID: LVABHNO0NRK9NW0D127E6X5GCOF8
  • Story Text: Palestinian refugees were being cared for by the United Nations Works and Relief agency (UNWRA) in Beirut on Wednesday (August 24) as they waited to be rehoused on government-owned land.

    The scores of refugees, who were among about 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, were displaced from their shantytowns in Christian suburbs of Beirut and south Lebanon in 1976 during the nation's civil war.

    They went to UNWRA premises some days ago after being evicted from a hotel they had occupied after losing their homes.

    UNWRA's director in Lebanon, Lionel Brisson, and Minister of States for the Displaced, Walid Jumblatt, agreed during talks in Damour that the Lebanese government had a duty to find decent housing for the displaced Palestinians.

    The Lebanese government has bought a piece of land prior to building residences for 3,000 families of Palestinian refugees displaced from their camps during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.

    UNRWA is expected to finance the construction of the houses, reportedly to be located in Iqlim al-Khroub area, about 20 kms (12 miles) south of Beirut.

    The decision to buy the land to house the refugees caused an uproar among several Christian politicians who claim the step is only the first in a campaign to permanently settle the mainly-Moslem refugees.


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