Rashidieh
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Rashidieh (Arabic: راشدية) is a Palestinian refugee camp south of Tyre in Lebanon.
As of 2003 there are 25, 580 registered refugees in the camp.
[edit] Further reading:
- Robert Fisk: Pity the nation: Lebanon at war. (Chapter 2: Mrs Zamzam in Rashidieh recall Umm al-Faraj)
[edit] See also
- Palestinian refugee camps
- Samir El-Youssef; writer and critic, born in 1965 in Rashidieh
[edit] External links
Palestinian exodus · Palestinian refugees1 · UNRWA | ||||||||||
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1The UNRWA definition of a "Palestinian refugee" is a person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict." "UNRWA's definition of a refugee also covers the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948." (UNRWA) |