Nahr al-Bared Camp: Protest Against Barracks -- via Angry Arab Newservice

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On 15 May 2009, several hundred [Palestinian] residents of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in North Lebanon gathered at the al-Quds mosque to march along the army posts to a construction side in the south of the camp. There, yet another piece of land was flattened and the building of the fifth unit of temporary shelters for displaced families is being prepared.

In their chants, the protesters demanded the return to the old camp and the end of the siege on Nahr al-Bared and the abolishment of the permit system respectively. Abu Tayyeb of the Residents' Committee demanded the immediate stop of the building of the new barracks as long as the reconstruction in the old camp wouldn't start. He further criticized corruption and nepotism in the reconstruction process and asked why the rebuilding of the old camp is constantly being delayed. He hinted at intentions to actually not rebuild the camp and told the crowd: „The laying of the foundation stone on 9 March was nothing but a lie!