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Dala at a workshop for the UNRWA Agency-wide Student Parliament. © 2019 UNRWA Photo by Qais Ghutasheh

Dispatches from the field: New hope every day – Dala’s story

12 August 2020
I was born in 2004 in Nahr al-Bared camp, one of the largest Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon.
Zuhair Abdel-Moneim, a 43-year-old Palestine refugee, with his family in Amman New Camp, Jordan.

Solidarity Overcomes Challenges

12 August 2020
A global pandemic is sweeping the world in the form of the COVID-19 virus and has changed many facets of our everyday lives. Initially exceptional circumstances have turned into new rules to live by, with our social norms turned upside down and paying little concern to...
Dispatches from the field: Palestinian Institutions Answered Beirut’s Call – Tha’er’s story

Dispatches from the field: Palestinian Institutions Answered Beirut’s Call – Tha’er’s story

11 August 2020
By: Tha’er Dabdoub, Head of the AMAN Medical Association in Burj Al-Barajneh camp When the explosion occurred, I was in the camp. First, I checked on my family, neighbours, colleagues and people from the camp. The picture of what happened was not clear. Then we drove an...
Dispatches from the field: Beirut does not know how to be broken – Mohammad’s story

Dispatches from the field: Beirut does not know how to be broken – Mohammad’s story

11 August 2020
At first glance, we thought that an explosion occurred near the camp or on its borders. There were many suggestions and rumors about it and after we confirmed the information, we immediately contacted the Lebanese Civil Defense to coordinate
Dispatches from the field: Our Destinies and Suffering are one - Jihad Banat's story

Dispatches from the field: Our Destinies and Suffering are one - Jihad Banat's story

08 August 2020
I was on Gemayzeh street in Mar Michail, Beirut around 6 p.m. preparing my carpentry tools when I heard the first explosion. I rushed inside the shop and heard the second explosion just a few seconds later. The blast tore the iron door of shop out and it hit me in the face...

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