Bourj el-Barajneh

Bourj el-Barajneh

Bourj el-Barajneh ( _ar. برج البراجنة) is a neighborhood and suburb of Beirut, in Lebanon located between the Beirut International Airport and the town of Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The name also refers to a Palestinian refugee camp located on the edge of this neighborhood. The League of Red Cross Societies established the camp in 1948 to accommodate an influx of Palestinian refugees from the Galilee in present-day northern Israel. The camp was laid siege to by the Israeli army and local Christian Phalangists during 1982, after Israel invaded Lebanon earlier that year. According to UNRWA more than 15,000 Palestinian refugees live in the camp, though originally only 10,000 were planned to live in the one square kilometer site. Another estimate puts that number at 20,000.

The city was founded by Arabs and is known as the Barajneh after a rebel who killed a slave of Fakhr-al-Din II (1590-1635).Fact|date=August 2007

External links

* [http://cepal.ca/index.php?id=134 CEPAL.ca] Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp
* [http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/lebanon/barajneh.html Burj El-Barajneh Refugee Camp] , from UNRWA.
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963603,00.html Time Magazine - "On The Brink of Cannibalism] . 23 February, 1987.
* [http://photos.cmaq.net/main.php?g2_itemId=12049 Burj el-Barajneh Camp: A Photo Essay] . Alternative Media Centre of Québec (CMAQ), 7 November 2005.
* [http://www.monitor.upeace.org/archive.cfm?id_article=30 Diary from Lebanon] , by Sina Rahmani. 12 May 2003.


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