Mirna Abu Nader woke up just in time. “We had noticed that the iron girders had started to bend from the huge pressure on the roof,” said the 24-year-old mother of two toddlers. “I was sleeping when I heard a creak and then a huge slab of concrete fell into our room. I only just managed to grab the baby in time.”
Welcome to life in the Gaza Buildings: the slum inside a slum; a former
Palestinian hospital on the edge of the Shatila refugee camp south of Beirut
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Across rusty corrugated roofs held down with car tyres, at the east end of Abu Hassan Salame street where goats and children pick their way through piles of rotting waste, Mahmoud Kallam points to the place where 24 years ago the far right Christian militias of the Lebanese Phalange party began their slaughter of hundreds of defenceless Palestinians.
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