Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp

“Compared to Syria, life in Lebanon is disgusting.  Life is different in every way: with housing, schools, visas and work—especially work, since Palestinians are not permitted to work, and the majority relies on UNRWA’s meager assistance.

 

 
by Louisa Lamb
Baddawi Palestinian camp
 

by Franklin Lamb

 
 
By Finian Cunningham
For many Palestinians today the conflict in Syria is a source of deep shame. This is because large numbers of Palestinian men have joined the ranks of the foreign-backed extremists trying to destabilize the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad.

Inside Emergency Damascene Shelters
school shelters
 

A Formula for Palestinian Survival in Damascus
Palestinian woman, who fled her home in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, feeds her baby inside a school, at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, (photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)