Fatah takes on security of refugee camps as Islamists vow to fight on

Fatah’s security chief in Lebanon says his faction will extend security control over all Palestinian camps in order to prevent the rise of Islamist radical groups such as the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah Islam, whose conflict with the army last summer destroyed the northern Nahr al-Bared camp.

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Funds dry up for much needed hospital in impoverished Palestinian camp

A desperately needed hospital in Lebanon’s largest and most violent Palestinian refugee camp has been unable to open on time because funds to buy beds and other basic medical equipment have dried up.

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Right of return – an unbending faith

Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, south Lebanon
Palestinian and Israeli leaders may have agreed at the US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis yesterday to work towards a full peace deal by the end of next year, but in this tinderbox refugee camp the lives of 75,000 Palestinians are defined by the single issue neither side has ever expressed willingness to compromise over: the right of Palestinian refugees to return home.

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