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UN CALLS FOR $55 MILLION TO REBUILD REFUGEE CAMP IN NORTHERN LEBANON:
11/9/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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- 11 September 2007 – The
United Nations appealed yesterday for $55 million to reconstruct the Nahr el-Bared
camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Lebanon, which was badly damaged
during months of intense combat between the Lebanese army and Fatah el-Islam
gunmen.
UN
Special Coordinator for Lebanon Geir O. Pedersen told a donor meeting for Nahr
el-Bared, being held in Beirut, that “thousands of displaced Palestinian and
Lebanese civilians” now depend on the support of the international community
to restart their lives.
“We,
the United Nations, will continue to assist and support the people affected by
the conflict to the best of our ability,” he said, adding later that “we
count on the continued support of the international donor community to ensure
that the recovery and reconstruction phase will move forward rapidly and
effectively.”
Earlier
this month the Lebanese army announced that it seized full control of Nahr
el-Bared from the Fatah el-Islam gunmen group, which it began fighting in May,
forcing most of the camp’s estimated 31,000 residents, including about 8,000
classified by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near
East (UNRWA) as special hardship cases, to flee to the nearby Beddawi camp and
other areas.
In his
statement, Mr. Pedersen voiced the UN’s support “to the Lebanese Government,
the army, the Lebanese people and the Palestinian refugees and the PLO for the
courage, determination and unity with which they have faced and overcome the
challenges posed by the criminal aggression of Fatah el-Islam."
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