Palestine Think Tank

Perhaps it it time to bring criminal and civil charges against the PLO, USA, Syria and Lebanese Forces for the massacres in Lebanon.
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
As was expected, the Palestinian leadership sitting in Ramallah and around the world did not make a mention of or remembers the massacre of some 5,000 Palestinians civilians massacred in [...]

More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, [...]

بقلم : زياد ابوشاويش
في البداية لابد أن أعترف أن هناك آلاف الحالات من أصحاب المآسي والظروف الصعبة والمعقدة الذين يحتاجون للعون من الحكومة الفلسطينية برام الله ومن حركة حماس باعتبارها سلطة أمر واقع في غزة وتحمل كما تقول في أدبياتها المشروع الوطني الفلسطيني البديل ولها الأغلبية البرلمانية التي منحها إياها شعبنا لتقدم له يد العون [...]

One year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be [...]

Early in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leave their homes, gather in [...]

Palestinian youth in the Dheisheh refugee camp talk about what it means to them to be a refugee, their identities and hopes for the future.

Video source: ibdaa194.org

On March 31st 2008, the Lebanese army made 20 houses in Majles Street in the destroyed Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared accessible. All 20 buildings had signs of burning; sometimes, entire rooms or even floors were completely burnt. At least in 16 of the buildings, traces of flammable liquids, including petrol and gasoline could [...]

However, my happiness did not last for long when I discovered that NONE of the Palestinian refugee camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories are published there (see map below). So, even if you �Sit in front of your computer�, with a few clicks you can �see, hear and develop an emotional understanding of what it is like to be a refugee�, but not the Palestinian refugees� experience. They don�t exist!