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ReliefWeb
February 19, 2018
The contribution has gone towards the Agency's humanitarian response to Ein El Hilweh camp following the clashes that took place in August 2017 and has allowed UNRWA to provide emergency cash assistance to more than 404 families displaced from the Tireh sector of Ein El Hilweh. These familiesÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 7, 2017
The Ein El Hilweh Palestine refugee camp (EHC), located 3 km south-east of Saida, was first settled in 1948 by refugees from northern Palestine. The camp received many Palestine refugees from other camps during Lebanon's civil war, becoming the country's largest camp in terms of both area andÃâà...
ReliefWeb
October 25, 2017
UNRWA held a closing ceremony to celebrate the completion of an infrastructure and shelter rehabilitation project in Ein El Hilweh refugee camp in Saida, Lebanon on 20 September 2017. Palestine refugees and UNRWA staff appreciate the support of the European Union (EU), the Saudi Fund forÃâà...
Palestine News Network
September 24, 2017
The women fled to Lebanon and are now living in the country's largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ein el Hilweh, where they face restrictions to their basic civil rights, and limited opportunities for work and education. The women are part of a MAP-supported reproductive health programme run by our partnerÃâà...
The Daily Star
August 1, 2017
A driver sped through a Lebanese Army checkpoint at the entrance of Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon and entered the camp, local sources told The Daily Star. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe nowÃâà...
Reliefweb
July 26, 2017
Yesterday, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Sigrid Kaag and the Director of UNRWA in Lebanon, Mr. Claudio Cordone, visited the Palestine refugee camp of Ein El Hilweh. They met with representatives and residents of the camp, including women and youth groups, and visitedÃâà...
Reliefweb
May 25, 2017
Today, Rama, a Palestine refugee from Syria, and her classmates from Palestine Martyrs School in Ein El Hilweh, Lebanon, met with children from Sweden's Helsingborg International School as part of the UNRWA My Voice-My School classroom initiative. The My Voice-My School project is an innovativeÃâà...
The National
April 9, 2017
The camp's radical groups have regularly fallen afoul of Palestinian security forces for hiding fugitives from the Lebanese law. Under an agreement with the Fatah-dominated Palestine Liberation Organisation, Lebanon's security forces are not authorised to enter the camp. Ein El Hilweh resident Salah Al AliÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 28, 2017
UNRWA strongly condemns the ongoing armed violence that erupted in the Ein El-Hilweh Palestine Refugee camp in Lebanon, on 23 February 2017. Recurrent armed violence continues to impact the civilian population in the Camp, including children. There are reports of injuries to civilians and damageÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
September 22, 2016
Armed clashes erupted in the Ein El-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon between Fatah factions and member of Fatah Al-Sham yesterday evening, a Lebanese security source said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told the Anadolu Agency: “The Ein El-Hilweh camp in SidonÃâà...
