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Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=99745
Rebuild Gaza, But Don't Forget Nahr al-Bared
[Daily Star-Lebanon] Khalil Makkawi - In 2007, the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon was infiltrated by a terrorist group, Fatah al-Islam. In the struggle to flush them out, 180 Lebanese soldiers were killed and much of the camp was destroyed, leaving some 30,000 refugees homeless: a mini-Gaza of our own. Despite many months of negotiations, the $440 million of international assistance required to help reconstruct the camp has still not been secured. If the foreign donors gathering at Sharm el-Sheikh are now ready to spend $2 billion, why not $2.5 billion?