Ending life in a shed for Palestinians living in Lebanon gatherings

Ali Mohammed Hindawi’s earliest memories are of herding goats as a young boy on the slopes of Bassa, a village then in northern Palestine.
The last memories the 84-year-old will take with him to his grave are of three decades living alone in a rusted zinc shed in south Lebanon, without water, electricity or a toilet, sleeping among chickens, flies and litter, forever separated from his family by displacement and poverty.
 

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UNRWA to cut Nahr al-Bared assistance as funding fails

As he picked plastics and paper off the conveyor belt full with the rubble of his neighbours’ homes, Issam Sayyed indicated to a white house behind him, splattered with bullet holes and with its roof caved in.

“That’s my home,” said the father of nine, a Palestinian refugee displaced from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, which was ruined in a fifteen-week war last year between the army and Islamist insurgents.

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Lebanon: Inside the new playground for Islamic militants

When the lethal fragments of shells began to explode all around him, a terrified Yousef Abu Radi wrapped his arms around his ten-year-old sister Jinan to try and protect her.
“We were only about 50m from the Lebanese army checkpoint when the bus came under fire,” said the 12-year-old as he lay in Safad hospital in Bedawi, a refugee camp 10km from Nahr al-Bared, from where around 20,000 Palestinians have fled a brutal week of fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants.

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