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Palestinians in Lebanon Face Obstacles in Reconstruction
[Los Angeles Times] Meris Lutz - Much of the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon was destroyed in spring 2007 in fighting between Fatah al-Islam militants and the Lebanese Army, leaving some 30,000 people in temporary UN housing or squeezed into the outskirts of the camp. In the two years since the fighting ended, reconstruction efforts have been hampered by lack of funds and political opposition to any permanent construction that could be seen as a step towards the "naturalization" of Palestinians in Lebanon. On Thursday, the country's highest administrative court is expected to rule on an official request from Christian leader Gen. Michel Aoun's party, the Free Patriotic Movement, to stop reconstruction.