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Fleeing from death … and toward death
Facts and testimonies from victims of illegal migration from northern Lebanon The "Tartus boat" tragedy reopened the wounds of illegal…
The camp’s cultural life is regaining its pulse relative to conditions in Lebanon
Bassil Abdel Aal - A Palestinian poet and writer from Nahr al-Bared camp Along the coast, I encounter something I…
Why is the Nahr al-Bared administration not a model for the camps?
Zuhair Hawari - a Lebanese researcher and journalist It started in the 1990s and my first visit to the Nahr…
Between Al-Bared and Tripoli, stories and tales – and worries
Khaldoun Al Sharif - former head of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee and an academic In the middle of a relatively…
A decent home in search of a decent country
Marwan Abdel Aal - Palestinian novelist, politician and official of the Palestinian Committee to Follow Up on the Reconstruction of…
The new Nahr al-Bared camp: Searching for facts and the roots of memories
Ahmed El-Dalou - Palestinian journalist from Tafael Palestinians, in general, despise the month of May because it was in that…
A history of the Nahr al-Bared camp’s relationship with its surroundings, fractured by the battles of 2007
Jana Al-Dhaibi - Lebanese researcher and journalist The Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp has lived through many phases of changing…
To complete its plan for confronting the spread of COVID-19 in Palestinian camps and communities, the LPDC opens departments in Baddawi’s Safad Hospital
As the country entered the fourth outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, a period which, according to the head of the…
Ensuring UNRWA support for the Palestine refugees is an investment in human development and dignity
Joanna Wronecka - United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Lebanon’s multiple crises weigh heavily on Lebanese citizens, and the refugee…
The youth of Nahr al-Bared camp, for whom dreams fade like the smoke of cafés
Maysoon Jamal - Palestinian journalist Young people are the human capital in the progress of societies. In northern Lebanon’s Nahr…
Displacement in times of crisis
Many Palestinian refugees live in the country’s twelve refugee camps. Once places of sanctuary, today,…
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Real Lives: Beyond the statistics
As Lebanon struggles, relations between Palestinians and host nationals evolve.
86.3 % of all migrations occurred after 1990
This graph provides the distribution of members of Households living abroad by period of migration.More than 86.3% of the total…
47.8% of refugees move to Lebanon to “Escape for security issues”
As much as 47.8 % of the refugees sited "Escape for security issues" as the reason for their migration to…
More illiteracy among women
This graph shows higher level of education for population aged 10+. About 7.1 % are illiterate, the percentage being higher…
8% of refugees have reported major disabilities
A total of 17,002 refugees have reported difficulty in seeing with 3886 having major difficulty or total blindness. With 13,793…
Possession of travel document
More than half (52 %) of the PR are in possession of Lebanese travel document for Palestinians while 4.1 %…
Type of housing unit by Governorates
Houses owned or rented by the refugees form a huge majority of the houses. It is of interest to look…
The Geographic and Demographic Struggle in and around Jerusalem: A Struggle for Land and Sovereignty
Khalil Al Takfaji* The struggle for the city of Jerusalem can be described as one for the land and sovereignty…
Seventy-three years since the Nakba: generations of memories, refugees, diaspora and homes destroyed
This year marks the seventy-third anniversary of the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine, and the dispersion of its…
The effects of the intifada in the Lebanese camps:
“the elderly will not die, and the young will not forget” Palestinian journalist Ahmed Al-Sabahi recounts the effects of the…
Palestinian Intifada
The destabilization of the Zionist myth and the return of the cause Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut Palestinian protests…
Palestinians and Cinema in Lebanon… the Beidas-Boulos duo challenge
Mohamad Soueid, Lebanese film director and critic Palestinians had a significant impact on the film industry and film production in…
The confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians:
developments and repercussions Majed Kayali, Palestinian writer From the river to the sea, the occupied Palestinian territories witnessed a massive…
The two-state solution is a dishonored cheque!
Rosana Boumonsef, Lebanese journalist In the context of the repercussions of the most recent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,…
The secret of the victory of the Palestinian cause in the long run
Roger Deeb, Former Lebanese Minister I will begin by extending my sincere condolences for the martyrs of the last Gaza…
Improving the living conditions of Palestinian refugees is a Lebanese and international priority
Former Lebanese Minister Melhem Riachy shares his thoughts on the current situation in Palestine and the impact it delivers on…
Is the international community ready to bind Israel to UN resolutions?
Asks Amina Suleiman, General Union of Palestinian Women - Lebanon Branch Throughout the past 73 years of Palestinian national struggle,…
Perhaps the oxygen of Palestinian patriotism will dissipate the toxins of settlement
Marwan Abdel Aal, Palestinian novelist and a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The uprising of…
Palestine intifada The beginning of a new phase in the conflict with the Zionist entity
Osama Hamdan, a senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon and a member of the organization’s politburo With Trump’s announcement on…
The Arabs of 1948 take up the torch of Palestine’s historical identity and bring down Israelization
Jerusalem-based Palestinian journalist Muhanad Abdel Hamid looks back at the Arabs of 1948 and their descendants, recent role in defending…
Sons of the Emir Sheikh Jarrah – a brief history of the neighborhood
The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem would have been no more notable than any of the old areas in the…
Palestinian youth choice: graduate into unemployment, or emigrate to work?
Palestinian youth choice: graduate into unemployment, or emigrate to work? Malak Zamzam First-year nursing student Arwa, 20, has just turned…
Distance education: weak equipment means weak results
Ahmed Hajj Ali, Palestinian journalist Muhammad lives in Burj al-Barajneh camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut. His teachers at…
It was supposed to be a stop on the way back but became a place of true exile
Saqr Abu Fakhr, Palestinian journalist and researcher Around 70 years ago, it was called the Shatila Sands or Shatila Yard.…
Marginalizing The Marginalized
Hassan Mneimneh, Chairman of the LPDC Throughout 72 years of Palestinian shelter in Lebanon, refugees were marginalized and abandoned in…
UNRWA and Remote Education: Two years of no interaction
Hussein Mehdi Educators understand the current administration at UNRWA in Lebanon is not capable of managing and developing the remote…
What do the youth of Shatila want to say to the world?
How can a Palestinian refugee in Shatila Camp make the world stop and listen? Such was the aim of Mira…
The changing relationship between Israelis and the Palestinians in Israel
Johny Mansour, Palestinian historian and academic from Haifa It seems that the ramifications of the Sheikh Jarrah crisis spilled over…
The Sun in a Closed Room
Shatha Abdulaal, Palestinian artist and journalist When I met a French photojournalist at Shatila - there to capture the faces…
The Camp: Suffocating and suffocated
Mona Sokarya, Lebanese journalist and writer In my mind, a ‘camp’ for Palestinian refugees is Palestine itself. A cause to…
Shatila: A summary of the continuing Palestinian tragedy
Zuhair Hawari, Lebanese journalist and researcher Shatila Camp is essentially an encapsulation of the entire Palestinian tragedy. While other camps…
Shatila Camp: A small land that cannot contain the sorrows of its people
Al Moatassem Khalaf, Palestinian Syrian journalist We’ve arrived. I think. “We’re not there quite yet”, said Mahmoud Hashim, as we…
Lebanon viewed as one sizeable Palestinian camp
Wissam Saada, Lebanese writer and researcher Economic collapse and political standstill impact all aspects of Lebanon's life, making it more…
In here, we hold up our walls, not the other way round
Fatima Ghazawi Time repeats itself, and all days are identical in our little house with small rooms, where weary walls…
Facing COVID at the camps
Recovery at Ein El Hilweh courtesy of new equipment and vaccination campaigns Ein El Hilweh Camp is the largest Palestinian…
Life in the Camps: On a hot plate – socially and economically
Ayham Al Sahli, Palestinian journalist with ‘Tafaol’ It was not easy to write this article during the day due to…
Political song: the cultural and popular bond between Lebanon and Palestine
Abido Bacha, Palestinian TV writer and director, and theater critic I did not have to climb a flight of stairs…
Covid-19 Response
The final touches before the official opening of the intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients at the Al-Hamshary Hospital initiated…
Palestinian Youth Strategy
About LPDC’s Youth StrategyWhat are the right questions we should be asking about the conditions and prospects of the Palestinian…
Key Findings of the National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017
December 21, 2017 The Grand Serail hosted today the launching of the Key Findings of the National Population…
Detailed Report of the “Population and Housing Census in the Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon”
October 16, 2019 The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, the Lebanese Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)and the Palestinian Central Bureau…
Joint Lebanese-Palestinian statement on “Deal of the Century”and “Manama workshop”
June 25, 2019 The Lebanese and Palestinian Working Groups on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, composed of the Lebanese…
The Palestinian archives … The future battle
* Palestinian journalist. The building hosting the Palestine Research Center near Sadat Street in Beirut is still burnt since it…
A refugee story: from Burj El-Barajneh camp to Ashrafieh
* Palestinian Journalist .Somoud Ghazal was born in Burj El-Barajneh camp, south of Beirut, to a Palestinian father who was…
A refugee story: Horror in the middle of the sea … and on the mainland
* Palestinian Journalist He agreed to talk about his experience on condition that his name would not be mentioned, as…
I will try again!
* Palestinian Journalist Fadi was born in Tripoli in north Lebanon. He has not left it for 32 years. It…
A refugee story: Abu Hassan: I am not the only Lebanese in the camp
* Palestinian Journalist He is a Lebanese citizen from Tyre. She is a Palestinian refugee from the Rashidieh camp, south…
Arab Index: 78% of Arabs consider the Palestinian cause the issue of all Arabs
The year 2020 was burdened with crises and problems for the Palestinians, both internally and externally, from the repeated daily…
Will Biden reopen channels of dialogue with the Palestinians?
* A former Lebanese ambassador to the United States and a statistics expert Perhaps the biggest difference between Donald Trump’s…
We need to get out of the “closed nationalist box”
* lawyer and former ambassador of Lebanon to Washington I got to know the Palestinians, their cause, the people, and…
Rejecting prejudices is a condition for the Palestinian-Lebanese dialogue
* Member of the Palestinian National Council I was twelve years old when the defeat in the 1948 war forced…
To confront Covid-19 spread in the Camps: LPDC provides equipment for Palestinian hospitals and isolation centers
Although the Lebanese authorities announced lockdown for two weeks in the second half of last November, and reimposed it after…
Palestinian refugees and the coronavirus: mandatory and voluntary isolation
*The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact” Firas removed from his car everything that reveals its Palestinian identity, such as…
The Palestinians in Lebanon and the UNRWA face the challenges of collapse
* Member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine During 2020 and before that,…
What future should be envisaged for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon?
*Freelance journalist and correspondent in Beirut for several media including RFI and Le Monde. Every time I go to a…
The question of Palestinians’ rights in Lebanon: a political impossibility
*Freelance journalist based in Lebanon; she was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. In August 2019, for…
Peace coupled with rights is a vital interest for Lebanon
* Former Lebanese minister …
No “solution” to the Palestinian cause without the fall of the racist establishment
* Palestinian writer, thinker, and former President of Al-Quds University The refugee issue is not a separate one. It…
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini to “Jousour”: There are indications that US funding would resume
“UNRWA is facing the biggest funding shortfall of its history”, but the commissioner-general of the international Agency Mr. Philippe Lazzarini…
Lokman Slim, documenter of the Lebanese-Palestinian memory
The assassination of writer, researcher, publisher, and media activist Lokman Slim has drawn widespread denunciation and condemnation from politicians, political…
We are still far from achieving peace and a just solution to the Palestinian cause
* Academic and former minister In a time of turmoil, disintegration, open conflicts, and the apparent inability in emerging from…
Working together in the face of challenges
* Chairman of LPDC The unlamented 2020 year has elapsed and hopefully the current year will be different. It was…
Palestinian’s Respond to Covid-19 with Awareness and Solidarity
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. As soon as the Lebanese Ministry of Health…
October 17 Youth: In Our Own Eyes We Became Leaders
*Researcher in Human Rights “I am the leader of the Revolution,” a phrase affixed to all the walls of…
Palestinian Camps are Healing Lebanon’s Wounds
At the moment of the disaster, when the explosion echoed in the Port of Beirut and we started receiving breaking…
Do Palestinian Youth Have the Right to Participate in Decision-Making?
*A young Palestinian from Al Rachidyia Camp that it is your right as a Palestinian young man to take…
Drug Addiction in the Camps: An Accumulation of Causes
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. A.N. suffered a setback at a crucial time…
Mohsen Ibrahim … The Lebanese Palestinian
*Lebanese researcher and academic Those who wrote about the passing away of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Communist…
Salah Al Dabbagh: The Last to Leave Jaffa
*Palestinian writer and researcher. He was twelve years old when he left Jaffa with his family on the last boat…
For Palestinian Students: The Hardest is Yet to Come!
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. It was a tough academic year for Palestinian students,…
A Mirror of the Lebanese Collapse at all Levels
*Lebanese journalist It is still Coronavirus time all over the world. Although there is a glimmer of hope that…
Israel Exploits Beirut’s Disaster
*Researcher in Israeli affairs For months before, Israel has been exploiting the Lebanese stifling socio-economic and financial crisis to…
The Annexation: An Opportunity for Strategic Review
*Former Fatah Senior Press Officer in Lebanon Resolving the Jewish issue in Europe has produced a Palestinian issue that did…
Drug Trafficking in the Palestinian Camps Mixed Networks of Families and Factions
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. The Palestinian camps and Lebanon in general were…
Between the Camps and their Surroundings… The Drug Route is Open
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. The sale of hallucinogenic pills and the different kinds…
Virus or Hope Infection in the Camps?
Amid conflict between virus infection and hope “infection”, how did the Palestinian community in Lebanon confront the epidemic, in terms…
Annexation Aggression: The Lebanese Diplomacy Standpoint!
*Expert in Public Policy and Refugees Palestine has not rested from successive aggressions since 1948. The United Nations has…
Lebanese and Palestinians allies by pain and hope
*Chairman of LPDC The Lebanese people are living one of the worst periods in their history. They have never…
Recognizing the Palestinians’ Rights Does not Affect our Economy and Society
*Former Lebanese Minister and Deputy. When we address the issue of electricity, which is draining the state’s finances, this…
Dar El-Nimer: A token of gratitude from the Palestinian people to Lebanon
For 40 years, Rami Rifaat El-Nimer collected the history of his country with pictures, manuscripts, paintings, icons, documents, ancient coins,…
Palestinian identity… Lebanese residence
* Palestinian journalist Geographically, the Palestinians are divided into two parts: the Palestinians of Palestine and the Palestinians of…
Taking Refuge in the Camp
* Palestinian Journalist Umm Hussein walks up and down the streets and pathways of Rashidiyeh refugee camp calling with…
Let the Palestinians imitate the Lebanese
* Lebanese journalist I read in a book entitled “Migration from Mount Lebanon (Mutasarrifiya)” by Dr. Abdullah Al-Mallah that…
One of my eyes is Palestinian and the other Lebanese
* Palestinian Lebanese journalist Some cats are born with a genetic disorder that results in a color mismatch of the…
Displacement between two logics
* Palestinian novelist I was holding a creative writing workshop for the benefit of one of the NGOs in…
Lebanese-Palestinian road map for a comprehensive confrontation of the deal of the century
The Lebanese and Palestinian working groups on Palestinian refugees affairs in Lebanon held a joint meeting on February 19/2020, in…
The Palestinian eats his bread by the sweat of his brow
* Lebanese writer Has the battle to eliminate “strangers” started? Answering this question is not easy. It is…
How Israel perceives what is happening in Lebanon
* Researcher on Israeli affairs Since the start of the popular protest movement in Lebanon last October, Israel has…
The impact of economic crisis is worst in camp
“My mom wants two loaves of bread, when my dad works again, we will repay you” * Palestinian journalist With…
Camp Social Solidarity: Attempts to mitigate the disaster
*“Tafa’ol (interaction) :Palestinian media gathering in Lebanon A daily meal reaches the one-room house of Umm Ahmad, in Burj…
Ghettostans and apartheid will neither pass nor last
* General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement No need to be an expert in history to realize that…
Lebanon and Palestinian refugees: multiplied crisis
* Lebanese researcher and former regional adviser to ESCWA Context: From crisis to popular protest Since the outbreak of the…
Palestinian positive neutrality in respect to Lebanese particularity
*Palestinian writer and leader “Present! bear with us a little... We are nothing but insufferable passersby!” Mahmoud Darwish The Palestinians…
“Deal of the Century”: challenging options
Expert in Public Policies and Refugees Since 1948, Israel and its western allies have spared no effort to end the…
Trump’s vision and the Palestinian refugee issue: Abolition of the right to return and UNRWA
* Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies - Masarat Many assume as true Trump’s…
For a successful confrontation of the Deal of the Century
* Chairman of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee In the so-called “Deal of the Century”, President Trump does not offer anything…
Lebanon unified against settlement supports our right to return
* Palestinian Ambassador Ashraf Dabbour to “Jousour” Lebanon unified against settlement supports our right to return In an interview…
Youth Strategy for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 2019 – 2025
With the decline of local, Arab and international interest in the Palestinian cause; the bleak outlook for a peaceful settlement;…
Abdel-Dayem an Artist Until His Last Breath
*Palestinian painter and storyteller My grandfather, Abdel-Dayem Ayoub Abdel-Aal, began his life journey in 1948 when he left his home…
Mira Sidawi: The Camp Is Full of Creativity and Inspiration
Her mother named her Mira after a character in a series played by the late Lebanese actress Hind Abi Lamaa.…
The Media Continue Stereotyping Palestinians
*Independent journalist and president of the Majed Abu Sharar Media Foundation. It is almost impossible to declare your “Palestinianhood” in…
Robert Alassaad: On the Way to Fame
He is a young music composer and arranger who is approached by top singers, famous songwriters and composers to collaborate…
Friends of “Sadma Neighborhood”, Shatila Youth
*A Palestinian journalist and activist There are assumptions in the mind of the stranger, the neighbor who is just meters…
A Day in Ain al-Hilweh Camp
*Palestinian journalist, Ain al-Hilweh camp, Lebanon Mornings in the camp begin at 7:15 a.m. I have nothing to do that…
A Refugee in Palestine!
Interview! Baraa Awda, 28, was born in the Deheisheh refugee camp*, near Bethlehem, one of the most impoverished and…
Openness, Reconciliation and Human Rights!
* Chairman of LPDC The history of tragedies and hatred still sits at the top of our memories, Lebanese and…
Youth and Poverty in Lebanon: What Do the Studies Tell Us?
* Professor of Education, Lebanese University I will quickly review here the main topics presented by the studies in…
Palestinian Youth: Prisoners of the Past, Hostages of the Future
*Researcher, Professor of Sociology, participant in the French Institute for the Near East This problem can be addressed in several…
The Wandering Palestinian from a Syrian to a Lebanese Camp
*Syrian-Palestinian journalist, Sabina Palestinian refugee camp, Syria Five years have passed since I was classified in the Five years…
Time has erased our differences, we must move on
* Lebanese researcher and analyst at Synaps, a specialist in the criminal justice sector in Lebanon Growing up in…
Through Palestinian Eyes: Ignorance Has Made Us Strangers on the Same Land
*Palestinian journalist From the day we came into the world, we have found ourselves in a small place whose inhabitants…
Two Memories: Anxious and Desperate
*Lebanese expert on public policy and refugee issues The establishment of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee in 2005 dictated…
Will the Lebanese and the Palestinians Step Away from the Mirror Reflection of Their Damaged Memories?
* Lebanese writer and journalist The following ought to have happened. But it didn’t. No one has yet confessed to…
Towards Inclusive Youth Participation
* Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation According to the recent census conducted by the LPDC, roughly a third of the…
The Migration of Lebanon’s Palestinians: “Individual Choice” or “Organized Conspiracy”?
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are experiencing a growing migration outflow of their youth and families, and difficult economic and…
Shedding Light on the Document Outlining the Lebanese Vision on Palestinian Refugee Issues
*Representative of the Amal Movement in the Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugees. Due to its political, humanitarian and ideological…
I Will Never Sell My Father’s Shop
* Palestinian journalist After a long career in education of over 40 years, my father did not wish to stay…
When There Were No Boundaries or Barriers
* Lebanese journalist Up to 1926, there were no borders or barriers between Lebanon and Palestine. The north…
Palestinian Youth in Lebanon: Desire for Change is Stronger Than Marginalization
*Lebanese journalist Palestinian youth in Lebanon suffer from two-fold marginalization: Firstly, being refugees who are victims of an international, regional,…
Deal of the century’ A Preliminary of an Open Conflict
*Former central information officer of Fatah ovement in Lebanon The unprecedented clash between the current U.S. administration and the Palestinian…
The Israeli Internal Dispute on the ‘Basic Law of Nation-State
*Palestinian researcher and writer on Israeli affairs. Early on the morning of July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset conclusively enacted…
Settlement of Palestinian Refugees to Consecrate the Jewishness of the State
* Lebanese researcher and academic. The information leaked regarding the proposals made by Jared Kushner, adviser to the U.S. president,…
Camps: Between Marginalization, Neglect and Exploitation
*Palestinian writer and leader Incidents moving from one place to another and from a camp to its alleyways … The…
Giving Palestinian Passports to Refugees
*Head of North Lebanon Bar Association and former Minister of Social Affairs. There has been no injustice in history as…
Sleiman: Conflicts of Interests is a Reason for Not Disarming Palestinian Factions
* Interview with Former President M. Sleiman Former President General Michel Sleiman is apprehensive that the failure and collapse…
Stereotypes Overshadow the Suffering and the Heroes’ Stories
*Royal Norwegian Ambassador in Beirut As Norway is one of the longstanding partners of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee,…
Hoping for Reconciliation with the Palestinian Cause
*Lebanese writer The story of Palestinian displacement to Lebanon is a peal. Palestinians did not choose to be refugees; Israel…
The Duty to Remember and Speak Out
* Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Saint Joseph University; lawyer; former minister of justice. …
To Respect The Refugees’ Right to a Dignified Life
*Prime minister-designate In our ministerial statement of the 74th Lebanese government after independence and the first in the era of…
What the Deal of the Century Means
A Lebanese journalist, expert on Israeli affairs For more than a year and a half, the American team headed…
Four Years of LPDC Activity
Lebanese researcher and former regional adviser to ESCWA The issue of refugees in Lebanon has moved to the forefront…
Paul Guiragossian
Writer and researcher in Palestinian affairs Paul Guiragossian is part Armenian, part Lebanese and part Palestinian. He has chosen art…
At the Age of 14
Lebanese journalist Pierre and Mahmoud are behind me whispering. Mademoiselle Simone is reading a story in French; one of…
A Refugee’s Story
Palestinian writer Omar Mustafa was 13 years old when he left the village of Az-Zeeb in Acre, heading for…
Through Palestinian Eyes
Palestinian writer and researcher Perhaps the wisdom behind the LPDC’s choice of the title: “The Lebanese through Palestinian eyes –…
How I view the Palestinians today
Activist for Peace and Change, Vice President of Combatants for Peace I will not be understood today if, despite the…
Refugee Problems and Failures
Lebanese expert on public policies and refugee issues There is no doubt that much has been said and much has…
Open Letter from UNRWA
On 31 August, the United States announced that it will provide no additional funding to UNRWA. I express deep regret…
UNRWA’s Financial Crisis
Although the crisis of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) appears…
How to Save the Entity and the Individual
The entire world is struggling to cope with the repercussions of the crises of migration, asylum and displacement. Each…
On “Bridges”
Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee We issue this newspaper supplement to introduce the Lebanese and Palestinian public opinion…
Restoring Trust and Mutual Cooperation
Fatah Central Committee member, former Representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. My assignment to handle the Lebanon…
Building Better Relations
Former Minister, Director of Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs Before the Nakba of 1948, the…
Moving Forward Together
UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon The Issue of Palestine is central to Lebanon and to the United Nations alike.…
lebanese consensuses
Signed on October 22, 1989 and integrated within the Lebanese constitution in accordance with the amendments of the constitutional law…
Stages andn Evolution
This is a distinct phase for Lebanon, for it was characterized by a political shift in terms of dealing with…
dialogue consensus building
The LPDC seeks to Organize, host and facilitate multiple forums and platforms of dialogue, most importantly: …
Coordination And Networking
LPDC plays a vital role in acting as the focal point for national and international partners, on issues regarding Palestinian…
Capacity Building
The Lebanese Public Institutions mandated with the registry of the Palestinian refugees heavily suffers from outdated operational systems and limited…
Strategic Planning
The LPDC strategy identifies the absence of official, comprehensive and accurate data as a key factor that limits the ability…
Governance
The 2005 mandate to the LPDC was very broad. In the interest of effective implementation of the strategy, the project…
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A large majority of paid employees among employed refugees
Overall in the total employed population, 71.8% are paid employees. Self-employed account for 16.9%t and employers form another 10.7%. Only…
93.5% of the employed persons without work permit
About 93.5% of the employed persons have said that they do not possess a work permit. Considering that Lebanese Government…
60% of refugees depend on bottled water for drinking
Public network caters to about 35% of the refugees for their drinking water requirement and private networks another 4.1%. More…
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What is the timeline?
This is a work in progress and it is open ended. The strategy will be revised every year through monitoring…
How do the youth have a say? What is the role of the youth in the framework of action?
Youth participation in and ownership of this strategy is essential. Without the youth, there would be no strategy. We want…
How is this strategy funded?
Modalities and mechanisms are yet to be explored with donors. However, in line with the strategy spirit, it is an…
How will this strategy be implemented?
The strategy has a framework of action that will push for the implementation of this strategy. This framework has four…
What is the age range for the youth targeted in the strategy?
Palestinian youth aged 14-35. This is a wide age range compared to other age definitions of youth. The reason for…
65% of Palestinian live in their own house
36.8% of total Households have houses/apartment with ownership in the Camp. Another 26.6% of the refugee population lives in rented…
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81% of households rely on both public networks and generator
Only 17% of the Households depend exclusively on public networks. Almost 81% depend on both public networks and generator while…
Beirut camps host mainly non Palestinian
The Households headed by Syrian nationals are concentrated in certain Camps. Of the total number of 5,755 Households, 32.3% are…
Housing outside camps
Among the Households living in Gatherings, almost 51.9 percent have some form of ownership, with 24 percent having registered ownership…
LPDC Bolsters COVID-19 Ring of Care in Lebanon
At its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 virus knew no borders, respected no ethnicity,…
Building bridges and saving lives
For almost eight years, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Lebanon has assumed an unofficial role as ambassador to the Republic.…
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UNICEF
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United Nations Development Programme
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Who is behind this strategy?
The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC), supported by GIZ and the Swiss Embassy, and in coordination with UNRWA’s Youth Unit…
Why is LPDC doing this and what is LPDC’s role in this strategy?
Because there is a need. There is an abundance of resources invested in the youth, but the situation of the…
How is this strategy different from other youth strategies by various organizations?
It is important to note that this strategy is not bypassing existing strategies for the Palestinian youth in Lebanon; rather,…
What is this strategy?
This strategy functions as an overarching umbrella under which different initiatives and investments with and for the Palestinian youth in…
Explosion in Port of Beirut
6 August 2020 - Beirut, Lebanon. Abdo Pharaon looks at ruins of his home and Beirut in the aftermath of…
Displacement in times of crisis
Marginalizing the Marginalized: The silent screams of those left behind
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Real Lives: Beyond the statistics
As Lebanon struggles, relations between Palestinians and host nationals evolve.
Jousour / Issue 9
Read the stories from the Nahr al Bared camp
Mission
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A majority of men reach university
In all regions, more males got University education, although more females have ‘Secondary’ education compared to males. Whether this is…
Detailed Report of the “Population and Housing Census in the Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon”
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, the Lebanese Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) have released…
Joint Lebanese-Palestinian statement on “Deal of the Century”and “Manama workshop”
The Lebanese and Palestinian Working Groups on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, composed of the Lebanese parties represented in the parliament…
Mneymneh and UN Special Coordinator in Lebanon discussed ways for supporting Palestinian refugees’ issues
The Chairman of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) Dr. Hasan Mneymneh and the United Nations Special Coordinator in Lebanon, Jan…
Youth Strategy for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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Dr. Mneymneh and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland emphasize the support of UNRWA.
The Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) Dr. Hasan Mneymneh met at Grand Serail with the State Secretary…
After 70 years of asylum “JOUSOUR”- Bridges for the Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC), established since 2005, continues its efforts to open up spaces for dialogue on bilateral relations,…
An agreement to implement a survey on the Labor Force and Households Living Conditions inside the Palestinian camps
An agreement was signed today between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Norwegian Embassy in Lebanon to…
UNRWA says schools across region set to open on time
BEIRUT: In spite of funding cuts for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, schools for Palestinian children run by…
The other Lebanese Palestinian youth in Lebanon
In some ways, Lebanese citizens and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon couldn’t be closer: They speak virtually the same dialect and…
Mneymneh: UNRWA’s records are the basis of international recognition of the Palestinian refugees, and their rights
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee’s Chairman Hassan Mneymneh called for considering “the legal status of UNRWA, as an international organization…
Key Findings Report
Population and Housing Census in Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017 Download File
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Mneymneh meets with the Director of UNRWA: US Administration’s decision to cut Aid to the Agency will further destabilize the region
The Chairman of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Hassan Mneymneh, warned that the US decision to freeze 65 M US Dollars…
Why UNRWA’s refugee count is so high
BEIRUT: A disparity between the results of Lebanon’s first official census of Palestinian refugees, which registered just 174,422 individuals in…
Census puts Palestinian refugees at third of estimates
Results of the first official census of Palestinians in Lebanon released Thursday revealed that the population is considerably smaller than…
Lebanon conducts first-ever census of Palestinian refugees
Palestinian and Lebanese protest in Lebanon's southern border town of Naqura on December 21, 2017 to denounce the US decision…
Key Findings of the National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017
The Grand Serail hosted today the launching of the Key Findings of the National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian…
Krähenbühl and Mneymneh alarmed by the current level of funding for UNRWA
The Chairman of the LPDC Dr. Hassan Mneimneh, met at the Grand Serail the Commissioner-General of UNRWA Pierre Krähenbühl,…
A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
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The Working Group Meets Patriarch AlRahi
The Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon met Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi at the Patriarchal See…
Dr. Mneymneh Discusses Palestinian Refugees Census in Lebanon with Palestinian Factions
The Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, met with leaders of Palestinian factions in Lebanon at…
The Working Group Meets Army Commander in Yarzeh
Members of the Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon met Army Commander General Joseph Aoun at the…
Dr. Mneymneh: Khalaf is the Icon of a Striving Arab Woman
The Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Former Minister Hassan Mneymneh, underlined LPDC’s support to the United Nations Under-Secretary…
ESCWA Report :Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid: Palestine and the Israeli Occupation
This report examines, based on key instruments of international law, whether Israel has established an apartheid regime that oppresses and…
Dr. Mneymneh Meets Switzerland’s Special Envoy to the Near-East Peace Process in Lebanon
Following an invitation extended by the Swiss Government, LPDC Chairman, former minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh and LPDC Project Manager Abdelnasser…
Dr. Mneymneh Met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
The Chairman of the Lebanese and Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Dr. Hasan Mneymneh, met with the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas…
Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugees Meets Prime Minister Hariri
Prime Minister Saad el-Hariri has met at the Grand Serail a delegation of the Lebanese working group on Palestinian refugees,…
Krähenbühl and Mneymneh Confirm Continuity of UNRWA Mandate
The Chairman of Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Former Minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, met at the Grand Serail, the General Commissioner…
Palestiniens au Liban : vers la fin de la guerre des chiffres Réfugiés
« Dès aujourd'hui (hier), une équipe de 600 chercheurs, libanais et palestiniens, ira récolter des informations. » Hassan Mneimné, président…
Hariri launches census of Palestinian refugees
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri reiterated the importance of the right of return for Palestinians Thursday at an event launching…
Mneymneh to Voice of Lebanon Radio: “Palestinian Refugees’ Issues are Priority”
The Chairman of Lebanese Palestinian Committee, Former Minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, warned against the dangerous proliferation of extremism in Palestinian…
President Aoun Meets with Dr. Mneymneh: “The Palestinian cause should come to a fair, comprehensive and sustainable peace in the Middle East”
The President of Lebanon Michel Aoun welcomed the Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Dr. Hassan Mneymneh and the…
Lebanon Commemorates the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Today, in commemoration of the International Day for Solidarity with Palestinian People, observed on November 29 every year, the Lebanese…
Palestinian Moments’ photo exhibition opens at Beirut Souks
Images of displacement and war, but also of hope and resilience, have taken over Beirut’s glitzy Downtown Souks. To commemorate…
LPDC Honors Japanese Ambassador in Lebanon
The Chairman of Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, met the Ambassador of Japan in Lebanon Seiichi Otsuka at…
Donor Meeting for Nahr El-Bared Palestine Refugee Camp
The Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam chaired a meeting to discuss the ongoing plight of the Palestinian refugees displaced from…
Siniora and Mneymneh Meet with the Palestinian Security Committee
Former PM Fouad Siniora and LPDC Chairman Dr. Hassan Mneymneh met with the Higher Palestinian Security Committee, and discussed the…
The Discussion of Lebanon’s Report by the (CERD) Against Palestinian Refugees at the United Nations – Geneva on August 10 and 11, 2016
Your Excellency Mr. President, Allow me first to take some time to explain the Palestinian refugee issue in…
Mneymneh in the Launching of the Palestinian Human Rights File
LPDC Chairman and former minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh delivered a speech on the occasion of Masar’s launching of its file…
Mneymneh in the Launching of the Palestinian Human Rights File
LPDC Chairman and former minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh delivered a speech on the occasion of Masar’s launching of its file…
LPDC in one year 2015/2016
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Militants surrender to authorities in Ain al-Hilweh
Two more militants from Ain al-Hilweh turned themselves over to the authorities Monday as sources say this is the result…
Palestinians discuss cooperation with Ibrahim and Kahwagi
General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim agreed with Palestinian representatives Monday to increase cooperation between state institutions and Palestinian…
Three hundred and fourteen Palestine refugee students in Lebanon complete short-term vocational courses at the Siblin Training Centre
Under the patronage of the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Matthias Schmale, and with the generous support of the…
Shorter meets with 200 Palestinian students in Siblin training center
UK committment to support Palestine refugees throughout region and Lebanon As part of his ongoing visits to UK funded projects…
Nahr al-Bared camp still in limbo
Nearly nine years after clashes destroyed the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp near Tripoli, challenges persist, delaying the reconstruction of…
Misinformation plagues UNRWA-Palestinian dialogue
A climate of rumors and hearsay prevails in the Palestinian community, severely affecting UNRWA’s services and their beneficiaries. “[Palestinians] only…
Examining the continuation of NBC reconstruction
LPDC Chairman Dr. Hassan Mneymneh met with the Chairman of the Higher Follow-up Committee on the Reconstruction of Nahr el-Bared…
Mneymneh meets with Matthias Schmale at the Grand Serail
The Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon Matthias Schmale met with LPDC Chairman Dr. Hassan Mneymneh at the…
New Survey on the Socioeconomic Status of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
the American University of Beirut (AUB), together with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the…
Dr. Mneymneh: The need of a mechanism reconsidering the funding of the agency
In the speech he delivered to UNRWA’s advisory commission meeting held in Amman, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl signaled that the…
Dr. Mneymneh: The need of a mechanism reconsidering the funding of the agency
In the speech he delivered to UNRWA’s advisory commission meeting held in Amman, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl signaled that the…
Roundtable Discussion on the Conditions of Palestinian Refugees from Syria
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) and AUB’s Issam Fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs co-organized a roundtable…
Roundtable Discussion on the Conditions of Palestinian Refugees from Syria
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) and AUB’s Issam Fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs co-organized a roundtable…
Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee
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Associations
Facilitating the registration of Palestinian Associations in Lebanon: A right for Palestinians and an obligation of the host country Download…
Labor
Palestinian Worker's Guide: Rights and Obligations Download File
Education
Palestinian Students’ Guide in the Lebanese Educational Institutions Download File
Universal Periodic Review
The Rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and the Right of Return: a Lebanese Vision Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and the Right of Return: a Palestinian Vision Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on the Challenges of Legislation and the Downsides of Mentality: Are we supporting Palestinian individuals in Lebanon by…
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on Palestine in Lebanon – Diplomacy of the Challenges and the Need for an Embassy Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on the Lebanese-Palestinian relations (1982 – 2008) – A Palestinian perspective Download File
Labor
Research paper on the Labor Law and the Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon Download File
Fleeing from death … and toward death
Facts and testimonies from victims of illegal migration from northern Lebanon The "Tartus boat" tragedy reopened the wounds of illegal…
The camp’s cultural life is regaining its pulse relative to conditions in Lebanon
Bassil Abdel Aal - A Palestinian poet and writer from Nahr al-Bared camp Along the coast, I encounter something I…
Why is the Nahr al-Bared administration not a model for the camps?
Zuhair Hawari - a Lebanese researcher and journalist It started in the 1990s and my first visit to the Nahr…
Between Al-Bared and Tripoli, stories and tales – and worries
Khaldoun Al Sharif - former head of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee and an academic In the middle of a relatively…
A decent home in search of a decent country
Marwan Abdel Aal - Palestinian novelist, politician and official of the Palestinian Committee to Follow Up on the Reconstruction of…
The new Nahr al-Bared camp: Searching for facts and the roots of memories
Ahmed El-Dalou - Palestinian journalist from Tafael Palestinians, in general, despise the month of May because it was in that…
A history of the Nahr al-Bared camp’s relationship with its surroundings, fractured by the battles of 2007
Jana Al-Dhaibi - Lebanese researcher and journalist The Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp has lived through many phases of changing…
To complete its plan for confronting the spread of COVID-19 in Palestinian camps and communities, the LPDC opens departments in Baddawi’s Safad Hospital
As the country entered the fourth outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, a period which, according to the head of the…
Ensuring UNRWA support for the Palestine refugees is an investment in human development and dignity
Joanna Wronecka - United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Lebanon’s multiple crises weigh heavily on Lebanese citizens, and the refugee…
The youth of Nahr al-Bared camp, for whom dreams fade like the smoke of cafés
Maysoon Jamal - Palestinian journalist Young people are the human capital in the progress of societies. In northern Lebanon’s Nahr…
Displacement in times of crisis
Many Palestinian refugees live in the country’s twelve refugee camps. Once places of sanctuary, today,…
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Real Lives: Beyond the statistics
As Lebanon struggles, relations between Palestinians and host nationals evolve.
86.3 % of all migrations occurred after 1990
This graph provides the distribution of members of Households living abroad by period of migration.More than 86.3% of the total…
47.8% of refugees move to Lebanon to “Escape for security issues”
As much as 47.8 % of the refugees sited "Escape for security issues" as the reason for their migration to…
More illiteracy among women
This graph shows higher level of education for population aged 10+. About 7.1 % are illiterate, the percentage being higher…
8% of refugees have reported major disabilities
A total of 17,002 refugees have reported difficulty in seeing with 3886 having major difficulty or total blindness. With 13,793…
Possession of travel document
More than half (52 %) of the PR are in possession of Lebanese travel document for Palestinians while 4.1 %…
Type of housing unit by Governorates
Houses owned or rented by the refugees form a huge majority of the houses. It is of interest to look…
The Geographic and Demographic Struggle in and around Jerusalem: A Struggle for Land and Sovereignty
Khalil Al Takfaji* The struggle for the city of Jerusalem can be described as one for the land and sovereignty…
Seventy-three years since the Nakba: generations of memories, refugees, diaspora and homes destroyed
This year marks the seventy-third anniversary of the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine, and the dispersion of its…
The effects of the intifada in the Lebanese camps:
“the elderly will not die, and the young will not forget” Palestinian journalist Ahmed Al-Sabahi recounts the effects of the…
Palestinian Intifada
The destabilization of the Zionist myth and the return of the cause Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut Palestinian protests…
Palestinians and Cinema in Lebanon… the Beidas-Boulos duo challenge
Mohamad Soueid, Lebanese film director and critic Palestinians had a significant impact on the film industry and film production in…
The confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians:
developments and repercussions Majed Kayali, Palestinian writer From the river to the sea, the occupied Palestinian territories witnessed a massive…
The two-state solution is a dishonored cheque!
Rosana Boumonsef, Lebanese journalist In the context of the repercussions of the most recent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,…
The secret of the victory of the Palestinian cause in the long run
Roger Deeb, Former Lebanese Minister I will begin by extending my sincere condolences for the martyrs of the last Gaza…
Improving the living conditions of Palestinian refugees is a Lebanese and international priority
Former Lebanese Minister Melhem Riachy shares his thoughts on the current situation in Palestine and the impact it delivers on…
Is the international community ready to bind Israel to UN resolutions?
Asks Amina Suleiman, General Union of Palestinian Women - Lebanon Branch Throughout the past 73 years of Palestinian national struggle,…
Perhaps the oxygen of Palestinian patriotism will dissipate the toxins of settlement
Marwan Abdel Aal, Palestinian novelist and a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The uprising of…
Palestine intifada The beginning of a new phase in the conflict with the Zionist entity
Osama Hamdan, a senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon and a member of the organization’s politburo With Trump’s announcement on…
The Arabs of 1948 take up the torch of Palestine’s historical identity and bring down Israelization
Jerusalem-based Palestinian journalist Muhanad Abdel Hamid looks back at the Arabs of 1948 and their descendants, recent role in defending…
Sons of the Emir Sheikh Jarrah – a brief history of the neighborhood
The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem would have been no more notable than any of the old areas in the…
Palestinian youth choice: graduate into unemployment, or emigrate to work?
Palestinian youth choice: graduate into unemployment, or emigrate to work? Malak Zamzam First-year nursing student Arwa, 20, has just turned…
Distance education: weak equipment means weak results
Ahmed Hajj Ali, Palestinian journalist Muhammad lives in Burj al-Barajneh camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut. His teachers at…
It was supposed to be a stop on the way back but became a place of true exile
Saqr Abu Fakhr, Palestinian journalist and researcher Around 70 years ago, it was called the Shatila Sands or Shatila Yard.…
Marginalizing The Marginalized
Hassan Mneimneh, Chairman of the LPDC Throughout 72 years of Palestinian shelter in Lebanon, refugees were marginalized and abandoned in…
UNRWA and Remote Education: Two years of no interaction
Hussein Mehdi Educators understand the current administration at UNRWA in Lebanon is not capable of managing and developing the remote…
What do the youth of Shatila want to say to the world?
How can a Palestinian refugee in Shatila Camp make the world stop and listen? Such was the aim of Mira…
The changing relationship between Israelis and the Palestinians in Israel
Johny Mansour, Palestinian historian and academic from Haifa It seems that the ramifications of the Sheikh Jarrah crisis spilled over…
The Sun in a Closed Room
Shatha Abdulaal, Palestinian artist and journalist When I met a French photojournalist at Shatila - there to capture the faces…
The Camp: Suffocating and suffocated
Mona Sokarya, Lebanese journalist and writer In my mind, a ‘camp’ for Palestinian refugees is Palestine itself. A cause to…
Shatila: A summary of the continuing Palestinian tragedy
Zuhair Hawari, Lebanese journalist and researcher Shatila Camp is essentially an encapsulation of the entire Palestinian tragedy. While other camps…
Shatila Camp: A small land that cannot contain the sorrows of its people
Al Moatassem Khalaf, Palestinian Syrian journalist We’ve arrived. I think. “We’re not there quite yet”, said Mahmoud Hashim, as we…
Lebanon viewed as one sizeable Palestinian camp
Wissam Saada, Lebanese writer and researcher Economic collapse and political standstill impact all aspects of Lebanon's life, making it more…
In here, we hold up our walls, not the other way round
Fatima Ghazawi Time repeats itself, and all days are identical in our little house with small rooms, where weary walls…
Facing COVID at the camps
Recovery at Ein El Hilweh courtesy of new equipment and vaccination campaigns Ein El Hilweh Camp is the largest Palestinian…
Life in the Camps: On a hot plate – socially and economically
Ayham Al Sahli, Palestinian journalist with ‘Tafaol’ It was not easy to write this article during the day due to…
Political song: the cultural and popular bond between Lebanon and Palestine
Abido Bacha, Palestinian TV writer and director, and theater critic I did not have to climb a flight of stairs…
Covid-19 Response
The final touches before the official opening of the intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients at the Al-Hamshary Hospital initiated…
Palestinian Youth Strategy
About LPDC’s Youth StrategyWhat are the right questions we should be asking about the conditions and prospects of the Palestinian…
Key Findings of the National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017
December 21, 2017 The Grand Serail hosted today the launching of the Key Findings of the National Population…
Detailed Report of the “Population and Housing Census in the Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon”
October 16, 2019 The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, the Lebanese Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)and the Palestinian Central Bureau…
Joint Lebanese-Palestinian statement on “Deal of the Century”and “Manama workshop”
June 25, 2019 The Lebanese and Palestinian Working Groups on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, composed of the Lebanese…
The Palestinian archives … The future battle
* Palestinian journalist. The building hosting the Palestine Research Center near Sadat Street in Beirut is still burnt since it…
A refugee story: from Burj El-Barajneh camp to Ashrafieh
* Palestinian Journalist .Somoud Ghazal was born in Burj El-Barajneh camp, south of Beirut, to a Palestinian father who was…
A refugee story: Horror in the middle of the sea … and on the mainland
* Palestinian Journalist He agreed to talk about his experience on condition that his name would not be mentioned, as…
I will try again!
* Palestinian Journalist Fadi was born in Tripoli in north Lebanon. He has not left it for 32 years. It…
A refugee story: Abu Hassan: I am not the only Lebanese in the camp
* Palestinian Journalist He is a Lebanese citizen from Tyre. She is a Palestinian refugee from the Rashidieh camp, south…
Arab Index: 78% of Arabs consider the Palestinian cause the issue of all Arabs
The year 2020 was burdened with crises and problems for the Palestinians, both internally and externally, from the repeated daily…
Will Biden reopen channels of dialogue with the Palestinians?
* A former Lebanese ambassador to the United States and a statistics expert Perhaps the biggest difference between Donald Trump’s…
We need to get out of the “closed nationalist box”
* lawyer and former ambassador of Lebanon to Washington I got to know the Palestinians, their cause, the people, and…
Rejecting prejudices is a condition for the Palestinian-Lebanese dialogue
* Member of the Palestinian National Council I was twelve years old when the defeat in the 1948 war forced…
To confront Covid-19 spread in the Camps: LPDC provides equipment for Palestinian hospitals and isolation centers
Although the Lebanese authorities announced lockdown for two weeks in the second half of last November, and reimposed it after…
Palestinian refugees and the coronavirus: mandatory and voluntary isolation
*The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact” Firas removed from his car everything that reveals its Palestinian identity, such as…
The Palestinians in Lebanon and the UNRWA face the challenges of collapse
* Member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine During 2020 and before that,…
What future should be envisaged for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon?
*Freelance journalist and correspondent in Beirut for several media including RFI and Le Monde. Every time I go to a…
The question of Palestinians’ rights in Lebanon: a political impossibility
*Freelance journalist based in Lebanon; she was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. In August 2019, for…
Peace coupled with rights is a vital interest for Lebanon
* Former Lebanese minister …
No “solution” to the Palestinian cause without the fall of the racist establishment
* Palestinian writer, thinker, and former President of Al-Quds University The refugee issue is not a separate one. It…
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini to “Jousour”: There are indications that US funding would resume
“UNRWA is facing the biggest funding shortfall of its history”, but the commissioner-general of the international Agency Mr. Philippe Lazzarini…
Lokman Slim, documenter of the Lebanese-Palestinian memory
The assassination of writer, researcher, publisher, and media activist Lokman Slim has drawn widespread denunciation and condemnation from politicians, political…
We are still far from achieving peace and a just solution to the Palestinian cause
* Academic and former minister In a time of turmoil, disintegration, open conflicts, and the apparent inability in emerging from…
Working together in the face of challenges
* Chairman of LPDC The unlamented 2020 year has elapsed and hopefully the current year will be different. It was…
Palestinian’s Respond to Covid-19 with Awareness and Solidarity
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. As soon as the Lebanese Ministry of Health…
October 17 Youth: In Our Own Eyes We Became Leaders
*Researcher in Human Rights “I am the leader of the Revolution,” a phrase affixed to all the walls of…
Palestinian Camps are Healing Lebanon’s Wounds
At the moment of the disaster, when the explosion echoed in the Port of Beirut and we started receiving breaking…
Do Palestinian Youth Have the Right to Participate in Decision-Making?
*A young Palestinian from Al Rachidyia Camp that it is your right as a Palestinian young man to take…
Drug Addiction in the Camps: An Accumulation of Causes
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. A.N. suffered a setback at a crucial time…
Mohsen Ibrahim … The Lebanese Palestinian
*Lebanese researcher and academic Those who wrote about the passing away of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Communist…
Salah Al Dabbagh: The Last to Leave Jaffa
*Palestinian writer and researcher. He was twelve years old when he left Jaffa with his family on the last boat…
For Palestinian Students: The Hardest is Yet to Come!
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. It was a tough academic year for Palestinian students,…
A Mirror of the Lebanese Collapse at all Levels
*Lebanese journalist It is still Coronavirus time all over the world. Although there is a glimmer of hope that…
Israel Exploits Beirut’s Disaster
*Researcher in Israeli affairs For months before, Israel has been exploiting the Lebanese stifling socio-economic and financial crisis to…
The Annexation: An Opportunity for Strategic Review
*Former Fatah Senior Press Officer in Lebanon Resolving the Jewish issue in Europe has produced a Palestinian issue that did…
Drug Trafficking in the Palestinian Camps Mixed Networks of Families and Factions
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. The Palestinian camps and Lebanon in general were…
Between the Camps and their Surroundings… The Drug Route is Open
*Palestinian journalist. Member of “The Palestinian Media Collective in Lebanon “Interact”. The sale of hallucinogenic pills and the different kinds…
Virus or Hope Infection in the Camps?
Amid conflict between virus infection and hope “infection”, how did the Palestinian community in Lebanon confront the epidemic, in terms…
Annexation Aggression: The Lebanese Diplomacy Standpoint!
*Expert in Public Policy and Refugees Palestine has not rested from successive aggressions since 1948. The United Nations has…
Lebanese and Palestinians allies by pain and hope
*Chairman of LPDC The Lebanese people are living one of the worst periods in their history. They have never…
Recognizing the Palestinians’ Rights Does not Affect our Economy and Society
*Former Lebanese Minister and Deputy. When we address the issue of electricity, which is draining the state’s finances, this…
Dar El-Nimer: A token of gratitude from the Palestinian people to Lebanon
For 40 years, Rami Rifaat El-Nimer collected the history of his country with pictures, manuscripts, paintings, icons, documents, ancient coins,…
Palestinian identity… Lebanese residence
* Palestinian journalist Geographically, the Palestinians are divided into two parts: the Palestinians of Palestine and the Palestinians of…
Taking Refuge in the Camp
* Palestinian Journalist Umm Hussein walks up and down the streets and pathways of Rashidiyeh refugee camp calling with…
Let the Palestinians imitate the Lebanese
* Lebanese journalist I read in a book entitled “Migration from Mount Lebanon (Mutasarrifiya)” by Dr. Abdullah Al-Mallah that…
One of my eyes is Palestinian and the other Lebanese
* Palestinian Lebanese journalist Some cats are born with a genetic disorder that results in a color mismatch of the…
Displacement between two logics
* Palestinian novelist I was holding a creative writing workshop for the benefit of one of the NGOs in…
Lebanese-Palestinian road map for a comprehensive confrontation of the deal of the century
The Lebanese and Palestinian working groups on Palestinian refugees affairs in Lebanon held a joint meeting on February 19/2020, in…
The Palestinian eats his bread by the sweat of his brow
* Lebanese writer Has the battle to eliminate “strangers” started? Answering this question is not easy. It is…
How Israel perceives what is happening in Lebanon
* Researcher on Israeli affairs Since the start of the popular protest movement in Lebanon last October, Israel has…
The impact of economic crisis is worst in camp
“My mom wants two loaves of bread, when my dad works again, we will repay you” * Palestinian journalist With…
Camp Social Solidarity: Attempts to mitigate the disaster
*“Tafa’ol (interaction) :Palestinian media gathering in Lebanon A daily meal reaches the one-room house of Umm Ahmad, in Burj…
Ghettostans and apartheid will neither pass nor last
* General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement No need to be an expert in history to realize that…
Lebanon and Palestinian refugees: multiplied crisis
* Lebanese researcher and former regional adviser to ESCWA Context: From crisis to popular protest Since the outbreak of the…
Palestinian positive neutrality in respect to Lebanese particularity
*Palestinian writer and leader “Present! bear with us a little... We are nothing but insufferable passersby!” Mahmoud Darwish The Palestinians…
“Deal of the Century”: challenging options
Expert in Public Policies and Refugees Since 1948, Israel and its western allies have spared no effort to end the…
Trump’s vision and the Palestinian refugee issue: Abolition of the right to return and UNRWA
* Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies - Masarat Many assume as true Trump’s…
For a successful confrontation of the Deal of the Century
* Chairman of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee In the so-called “Deal of the Century”, President Trump does not offer anything…
Lebanon unified against settlement supports our right to return
* Palestinian Ambassador Ashraf Dabbour to “Jousour” Lebanon unified against settlement supports our right to return In an interview…
Youth Strategy for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 2019 – 2025
With the decline of local, Arab and international interest in the Palestinian cause; the bleak outlook for a peaceful settlement;…
Abdel-Dayem an Artist Until His Last Breath
*Palestinian painter and storyteller My grandfather, Abdel-Dayem Ayoub Abdel-Aal, began his life journey in 1948 when he left his home…
Mira Sidawi: The Camp Is Full of Creativity and Inspiration
Her mother named her Mira after a character in a series played by the late Lebanese actress Hind Abi Lamaa.…
The Media Continue Stereotyping Palestinians
*Independent journalist and president of the Majed Abu Sharar Media Foundation. It is almost impossible to declare your “Palestinianhood” in…
Robert Alassaad: On the Way to Fame
He is a young music composer and arranger who is approached by top singers, famous songwriters and composers to collaborate…
Friends of “Sadma Neighborhood”, Shatila Youth
*A Palestinian journalist and activist There are assumptions in the mind of the stranger, the neighbor who is just meters…
A Day in Ain al-Hilweh Camp
*Palestinian journalist, Ain al-Hilweh camp, Lebanon Mornings in the camp begin at 7:15 a.m. I have nothing to do that…
A Refugee in Palestine!
Interview! Baraa Awda, 28, was born in the Deheisheh refugee camp*, near Bethlehem, one of the most impoverished and…
Openness, Reconciliation and Human Rights!
* Chairman of LPDC The history of tragedies and hatred still sits at the top of our memories, Lebanese and…
Youth and Poverty in Lebanon: What Do the Studies Tell Us?
* Professor of Education, Lebanese University I will quickly review here the main topics presented by the studies in…
Palestinian Youth: Prisoners of the Past, Hostages of the Future
*Researcher, Professor of Sociology, participant in the French Institute for the Near East This problem can be addressed in several…
The Wandering Palestinian from a Syrian to a Lebanese Camp
*Syrian-Palestinian journalist, Sabina Palestinian refugee camp, Syria Five years have passed since I was classified in the Five years…
Time has erased our differences, we must move on
* Lebanese researcher and analyst at Synaps, a specialist in the criminal justice sector in Lebanon Growing up in…
Through Palestinian Eyes: Ignorance Has Made Us Strangers on the Same Land
*Palestinian journalist From the day we came into the world, we have found ourselves in a small place whose inhabitants…
Two Memories: Anxious and Desperate
*Lebanese expert on public policy and refugee issues The establishment of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee in 2005 dictated…
Will the Lebanese and the Palestinians Step Away from the Mirror Reflection of Their Damaged Memories?
* Lebanese writer and journalist The following ought to have happened. But it didn’t. No one has yet confessed to…
Towards Inclusive Youth Participation
* Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation According to the recent census conducted by the LPDC, roughly a third of the…
The Migration of Lebanon’s Palestinians: “Individual Choice” or “Organized Conspiracy”?
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are experiencing a growing migration outflow of their youth and families, and difficult economic and…
Shedding Light on the Document Outlining the Lebanese Vision on Palestinian Refugee Issues
*Representative of the Amal Movement in the Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugees. Due to its political, humanitarian and ideological…
I Will Never Sell My Father’s Shop
* Palestinian journalist After a long career in education of over 40 years, my father did not wish to stay…
When There Were No Boundaries or Barriers
* Lebanese journalist Up to 1926, there were no borders or barriers between Lebanon and Palestine. The north…
Palestinian Youth in Lebanon: Desire for Change is Stronger Than Marginalization
*Lebanese journalist Palestinian youth in Lebanon suffer from two-fold marginalization: Firstly, being refugees who are victims of an international, regional,…
Deal of the century’ A Preliminary of an Open Conflict
*Former central information officer of Fatah ovement in Lebanon The unprecedented clash between the current U.S. administration and the Palestinian…
The Israeli Internal Dispute on the ‘Basic Law of Nation-State
*Palestinian researcher and writer on Israeli affairs. Early on the morning of July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset conclusively enacted…
Settlement of Palestinian Refugees to Consecrate the Jewishness of the State
* Lebanese researcher and academic. The information leaked regarding the proposals made by Jared Kushner, adviser to the U.S. president,…
Camps: Between Marginalization, Neglect and Exploitation
*Palestinian writer and leader Incidents moving from one place to another and from a camp to its alleyways … The…
Giving Palestinian Passports to Refugees
*Head of North Lebanon Bar Association and former Minister of Social Affairs. There has been no injustice in history as…
Sleiman: Conflicts of Interests is a Reason for Not Disarming Palestinian Factions
* Interview with Former President M. Sleiman Former President General Michel Sleiman is apprehensive that the failure and collapse…
Stereotypes Overshadow the Suffering and the Heroes’ Stories
*Royal Norwegian Ambassador in Beirut As Norway is one of the longstanding partners of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee,…
Hoping for Reconciliation with the Palestinian Cause
*Lebanese writer The story of Palestinian displacement to Lebanon is a peal. Palestinians did not choose to be refugees; Israel…
The Duty to Remember and Speak Out
* Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Saint Joseph University; lawyer; former minister of justice. …
To Respect The Refugees’ Right to a Dignified Life
*Prime minister-designate In our ministerial statement of the 74th Lebanese government after independence and the first in the era of…
What the Deal of the Century Means
A Lebanese journalist, expert on Israeli affairs For more than a year and a half, the American team headed…
Four Years of LPDC Activity
Lebanese researcher and former regional adviser to ESCWA The issue of refugees in Lebanon has moved to the forefront…
Paul Guiragossian
Writer and researcher in Palestinian affairs Paul Guiragossian is part Armenian, part Lebanese and part Palestinian. He has chosen art…
At the Age of 14
Lebanese journalist Pierre and Mahmoud are behind me whispering. Mademoiselle Simone is reading a story in French; one of…
A Refugee’s Story
Palestinian writer Omar Mustafa was 13 years old when he left the village of Az-Zeeb in Acre, heading for…
Through Palestinian Eyes
Palestinian writer and researcher Perhaps the wisdom behind the LPDC’s choice of the title: “The Lebanese through Palestinian eyes –…
How I view the Palestinians today
Activist for Peace and Change, Vice President of Combatants for Peace I will not be understood today if, despite the…
Refugee Problems and Failures
Lebanese expert on public policies and refugee issues There is no doubt that much has been said and much has…
Open Letter from UNRWA
On 31 August, the United States announced that it will provide no additional funding to UNRWA. I express deep regret…
UNRWA’s Financial Crisis
Although the crisis of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) appears…
How to Save the Entity and the Individual
The entire world is struggling to cope with the repercussions of the crises of migration, asylum and displacement. Each…
On “Bridges”
Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee We issue this newspaper supplement to introduce the Lebanese and Palestinian public opinion…
Restoring Trust and Mutual Cooperation
Fatah Central Committee member, former Representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. My assignment to handle the Lebanon…
Building Better Relations
Former Minister, Director of Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs Before the Nakba of 1948, the…
Moving Forward Together
UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon The Issue of Palestine is central to Lebanon and to the United Nations alike.…
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Signed on October 22, 1989 and integrated within the Lebanese constitution in accordance with the amendments of the constitutional law…
Stages andn Evolution
This is a distinct phase for Lebanon, for it was characterized by a political shift in terms of dealing with…
dialogue consensus building
The LPDC seeks to Organize, host and facilitate multiple forums and platforms of dialogue, most importantly: …
Coordination And Networking
LPDC plays a vital role in acting as the focal point for national and international partners, on issues regarding Palestinian…
Capacity Building
The Lebanese Public Institutions mandated with the registry of the Palestinian refugees heavily suffers from outdated operational systems and limited…
Strategic Planning
The LPDC strategy identifies the absence of official, comprehensive and accurate data as a key factor that limits the ability…
Governance
The 2005 mandate to the LPDC was very broad. In the interest of effective implementation of the strategy, the project…
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A large majority of paid employees among employed refugees
Overall in the total employed population, 71.8% are paid employees. Self-employed account for 16.9%t and employers form another 10.7%. Only…
93.5% of the employed persons without work permit
About 93.5% of the employed persons have said that they do not possess a work permit. Considering that Lebanese Government…
60% of refugees depend on bottled water for drinking
Public network caters to about 35% of the refugees for their drinking water requirement and private networks another 4.1%. More…
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What is the timeline?
This is a work in progress and it is open ended. The strategy will be revised every year through monitoring…
How do the youth have a say? What is the role of the youth in the framework of action?
Youth participation in and ownership of this strategy is essential. Without the youth, there would be no strategy. We want…
How is this strategy funded?
Modalities and mechanisms are yet to be explored with donors. However, in line with the strategy spirit, it is an…
How will this strategy be implemented?
The strategy has a framework of action that will push for the implementation of this strategy. This framework has four…
What is the age range for the youth targeted in the strategy?
Palestinian youth aged 14-35. This is a wide age range compared to other age definitions of youth. The reason for…
65% of Palestinian live in their own house
36.8% of total Households have houses/apartment with ownership in the Camp. Another 26.6% of the refugee population lives in rented…
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81% of households rely on both public networks and generator
Only 17% of the Households depend exclusively on public networks. Almost 81% depend on both public networks and generator while…
Beirut camps host mainly non Palestinian
The Households headed by Syrian nationals are concentrated in certain Camps. Of the total number of 5,755 Households, 32.3% are…
Housing outside camps
Among the Households living in Gatherings, almost 51.9 percent have some form of ownership, with 24 percent having registered ownership…
LPDC Bolsters COVID-19 Ring of Care in Lebanon
At its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 virus knew no borders, respected no ethnicity,…
Building bridges and saving lives
For almost eight years, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Lebanon has assumed an unofficial role as ambassador to the Republic.…
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The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC), supported by GIZ and the Swiss Embassy, and in coordination with UNRWA’s Youth Unit…
Why is LPDC doing this and what is LPDC’s role in this strategy?
Because there is a need. There is an abundance of resources invested in the youth, but the situation of the…
How is this strategy different from other youth strategies by various organizations?
It is important to note that this strategy is not bypassing existing strategies for the Palestinian youth in Lebanon; rather,…
What is this strategy?
This strategy functions as an overarching umbrella under which different initiatives and investments with and for the Palestinian youth in…
Explosion in Port of Beirut
6 August 2020 - Beirut, Lebanon. Abdo Pharaon looks at ruins of his home and Beirut in the aftermath of…
Displacement in times of crisis
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A majority of men reach university
In all regions, more males got University education, although more females have ‘Secondary’ education compared to males. Whether this is…
Detailed Report of the “Population and Housing Census in the Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon”
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, the Lebanese Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) have released…
Joint Lebanese-Palestinian statement on “Deal of the Century”and “Manama workshop”
The Lebanese and Palestinian Working Groups on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, composed of the Lebanese parties represented in the parliament…
Mneymneh and UN Special Coordinator in Lebanon discussed ways for supporting Palestinian refugees’ issues
The Chairman of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) Dr. Hasan Mneymneh and the United Nations Special Coordinator in Lebanon, Jan…
Youth Strategy for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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Dr. Mneymneh and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland emphasize the support of UNRWA.
The Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) Dr. Hasan Mneymneh met at Grand Serail with the State Secretary…
After 70 years of asylum “JOUSOUR”- Bridges for the Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC), established since 2005, continues its efforts to open up spaces for dialogue on bilateral relations,…
An agreement to implement a survey on the Labor Force and Households Living Conditions inside the Palestinian camps
An agreement was signed today between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Norwegian Embassy in Lebanon to…
UNRWA says schools across region set to open on time
BEIRUT: In spite of funding cuts for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, schools for Palestinian children run by…
The other Lebanese Palestinian youth in Lebanon
In some ways, Lebanese citizens and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon couldn’t be closer: They speak virtually the same dialect and…
Mneymneh: UNRWA’s records are the basis of international recognition of the Palestinian refugees, and their rights
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee’s Chairman Hassan Mneymneh called for considering “the legal status of UNRWA, as an international organization…
Key Findings Report
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Mneymneh meets with the Director of UNRWA: US Administration’s decision to cut Aid to the Agency will further destabilize the region
The Chairman of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Hassan Mneymneh, warned that the US decision to freeze 65 M US Dollars…
Why UNRWA’s refugee count is so high
BEIRUT: A disparity between the results of Lebanon’s first official census of Palestinian refugees, which registered just 174,422 individuals in…
Census puts Palestinian refugees at third of estimates
Results of the first official census of Palestinians in Lebanon released Thursday revealed that the population is considerably smaller than…
Lebanon conducts first-ever census of Palestinian refugees
Palestinian and Lebanese protest in Lebanon's southern border town of Naqura on December 21, 2017 to denounce the US decision…
Key Findings of the National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian Camps and Gatherings in Lebanon 2017
The Grand Serail hosted today the launching of the Key Findings of the National Population and Housing Census of Palestinian…
Krähenbühl and Mneymneh alarmed by the current level of funding for UNRWA
The Chairman of the LPDC Dr. Hassan Mneimneh, met at the Grand Serail the Commissioner-General of UNRWA Pierre Krähenbühl,…
A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
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The Working Group Meets Patriarch AlRahi
The Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon met Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi at the Patriarchal See…
Dr. Mneymneh Discusses Palestinian Refugees Census in Lebanon with Palestinian Factions
The Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, met with leaders of Palestinian factions in Lebanon at…
The Working Group Meets Army Commander in Yarzeh
Members of the Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon met Army Commander General Joseph Aoun at the…
Dr. Mneymneh: Khalaf is the Icon of a Striving Arab Woman
The Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Former Minister Hassan Mneymneh, underlined LPDC’s support to the United Nations Under-Secretary…
ESCWA Report :Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid: Palestine and the Israeli Occupation
This report examines, based on key instruments of international law, whether Israel has established an apartheid regime that oppresses and…
Dr. Mneymneh Meets Switzerland’s Special Envoy to the Near-East Peace Process in Lebanon
Following an invitation extended by the Swiss Government, LPDC Chairman, former minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh and LPDC Project Manager Abdelnasser…
Dr. Mneymneh Met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
The Chairman of the Lebanese and Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Dr. Hasan Mneymneh, met with the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas…
Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugees Meets Prime Minister Hariri
Prime Minister Saad el-Hariri has met at the Grand Serail a delegation of the Lebanese working group on Palestinian refugees,…
Krähenbühl and Mneymneh Confirm Continuity of UNRWA Mandate
The Chairman of Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Former Minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, met at the Grand Serail, the General Commissioner…
Palestiniens au Liban : vers la fin de la guerre des chiffres Réfugiés
« Dès aujourd'hui (hier), une équipe de 600 chercheurs, libanais et palestiniens, ira récolter des informations. » Hassan Mneimné, président…
Hariri launches census of Palestinian refugees
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri reiterated the importance of the right of return for Palestinians Thursday at an event launching…
Mneymneh to Voice of Lebanon Radio: “Palestinian Refugees’ Issues are Priority”
The Chairman of Lebanese Palestinian Committee, Former Minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, warned against the dangerous proliferation of extremism in Palestinian…
President Aoun Meets with Dr. Mneymneh: “The Palestinian cause should come to a fair, comprehensive and sustainable peace in the Middle East”
The President of Lebanon Michel Aoun welcomed the Chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Dr. Hassan Mneymneh and the…
Lebanon Commemorates the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Today, in commemoration of the International Day for Solidarity with Palestinian People, observed on November 29 every year, the Lebanese…
Palestinian Moments’ photo exhibition opens at Beirut Souks
Images of displacement and war, but also of hope and resilience, have taken over Beirut’s glitzy Downtown Souks. To commemorate…
LPDC Honors Japanese Ambassador in Lebanon
The Chairman of Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Dr. Hassan Mneymneh, met the Ambassador of Japan in Lebanon Seiichi Otsuka at…
Donor Meeting for Nahr El-Bared Palestine Refugee Camp
The Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam chaired a meeting to discuss the ongoing plight of the Palestinian refugees displaced from…
Siniora and Mneymneh Meet with the Palestinian Security Committee
Former PM Fouad Siniora and LPDC Chairman Dr. Hassan Mneymneh met with the Higher Palestinian Security Committee, and discussed the…
The Discussion of Lebanon’s Report by the (CERD) Against Palestinian Refugees at the United Nations – Geneva on August 10 and 11, 2016
Your Excellency Mr. President, Allow me first to take some time to explain the Palestinian refugee issue in…
Mneymneh in the Launching of the Palestinian Human Rights File
LPDC Chairman and former minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh delivered a speech on the occasion of Masar’s launching of its file…
Mneymneh in the Launching of the Palestinian Human Rights File
LPDC Chairman and former minister Dr. Hassan Mneymneh delivered a speech on the occasion of Masar’s launching of its file…
LPDC in one year 2015/2016
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Militants surrender to authorities in Ain al-Hilweh
Two more militants from Ain al-Hilweh turned themselves over to the authorities Monday as sources say this is the result…
Palestinians discuss cooperation with Ibrahim and Kahwagi
General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim agreed with Palestinian representatives Monday to increase cooperation between state institutions and Palestinian…
Three hundred and fourteen Palestine refugee students in Lebanon complete short-term vocational courses at the Siblin Training Centre
Under the patronage of the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Matthias Schmale, and with the generous support of the…
Shorter meets with 200 Palestinian students in Siblin training center
UK committment to support Palestine refugees throughout region and Lebanon As part of his ongoing visits to UK funded projects…
Nahr al-Bared camp still in limbo
Nearly nine years after clashes destroyed the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp near Tripoli, challenges persist, delaying the reconstruction of…
Misinformation plagues UNRWA-Palestinian dialogue
A climate of rumors and hearsay prevails in the Palestinian community, severely affecting UNRWA’s services and their beneficiaries. “[Palestinians] only…
Examining the continuation of NBC reconstruction
LPDC Chairman Dr. Hassan Mneymneh met with the Chairman of the Higher Follow-up Committee on the Reconstruction of Nahr el-Bared…
Mneymneh meets with Matthias Schmale at the Grand Serail
The Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon Matthias Schmale met with LPDC Chairman Dr. Hassan Mneymneh at the…
New Survey on the Socioeconomic Status of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
the American University of Beirut (AUB), together with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the…
Dr. Mneymneh: The need of a mechanism reconsidering the funding of the agency
In the speech he delivered to UNRWA’s advisory commission meeting held in Amman, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl signaled that the…
Dr. Mneymneh: The need of a mechanism reconsidering the funding of the agency
In the speech he delivered to UNRWA’s advisory commission meeting held in Amman, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl signaled that the…
Roundtable Discussion on the Conditions of Palestinian Refugees from Syria
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) and AUB’s Issam Fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs co-organized a roundtable…
Roundtable Discussion on the Conditions of Palestinian Refugees from Syria
The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) and AUB’s Issam Fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs co-organized a roundtable…
Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee
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Associations
Facilitating the registration of Palestinian Associations in Lebanon: A right for Palestinians and an obligation of the host country Download…
Labor
Palestinian Worker's Guide: Rights and Obligations Download File
Education
Palestinian Students’ Guide in the Lebanese Educational Institutions Download File
Universal Periodic Review
The Rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and the Right of Return: a Lebanese Vision Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and the Right of Return: a Palestinian Vision Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on the Challenges of Legislation and the Downsides of Mentality: Are we supporting Palestinian individuals in Lebanon by…
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on Palestine in Lebanon – Diplomacy of the Challenges and the Need for an Embassy Download File
Lebanese-Palestinian Relations
Research Paper on the Lebanese-Palestinian relations (1982 – 2008) – A Palestinian perspective Download File
Labor
Research paper on the Labor Law and the Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon Download File