… its population in dire conditions, with the cutting of Western aid to UNRWA, further aggravating its bleak poverty.

This Palestinian refugee camp is tragically famous as the center of the brutal massacre in 1982, when the Lebanese Phalangist (Christian political party) militia, supported by the Israeli army, killed thousands of Palestinian camp residents in cold blood.

Palestinian refugees here have collected decades of generational trauma passed down from the 1948 Nakba, from the 1967 Naksa, and then from the 1982 Massacre, and finally the 2006 Lebanon War. Thousands are watching the live-streamed genocide of their own people while living in the abysmal squalor of a refugee existence in Lebanon.

Report