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July 20, 2023

How Lebanon Discriminates against Palestinians

Arrested for building without a permit.

On July 3, Lebanese police arrested a sixty-four-year-old woman named Um Wissam for violating a set of laws that make it extremely difficult for Palestinians like herself to build new homes. Um Wissam is a resident of Rashidieh, the country’s second largest Palestinian “refugee camp”—which in reality is a small city populated mainly by Lebanese-born Palestinians whose parents or grandparents fled Israel during the 1948 war. Bassam Tawil comments:

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