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Abbas: No Resettlement of Palestinians in Lebanon


[AP/Washington Post] Bassem Mroue - About 400,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants live in a dozen refugee camps in Lebanon, which were set up in 1948. On a visit to Beirut on Thursday, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said, "The refugees should have the right of return to their homeland and we are negotiating this with the Israelis....We are against permanent resettlement" of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
2008-08-29 01:00:00
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