It is not just within Israel that the Palestinian people are displaced. Around 400,000 barely survive in ghetto-like camps in Lebanon.
With events in the Middle East now prominent in international relations, the problems surrounding Israel and Palestine have not gone unnoticed by the world's media or the public.
Most people are aware of the killings on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the poverty and misery which the ordinary Palestinian has suffered in a land occupied by the Israeli government since 1948 -- when Israel was formally created. The harsh realities of the suicide bombers fill our television screens so frequently that many in the West are immune to the bombings' emotional effects. They are, to many, nothing new in a region which is seen to live by way of the gun.
The displacement of the Palestinian people, however, is not just limited to the borders of Israel, but is also a phenomenon seen in countries such as Lebanon -- a state which is now rebuilding after years of war. Within Lebanon, around 400,000 refugees barely survive in ghetto-like camps on the outskirts of Beirut, Tyre, Tripoli and Sidon.
The largest of these, Ain Al-Helwa, in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, houses some 70,000 people in conditions akin to those of the shantytowns in poverty-stricken Peru.
With events in the Middle East now prominent in international relations, the problems surrounding Israel and Palestine have not gone unnoticed by the world's media or the public.
Most people are aware of the killings on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the poverty and misery which the ordinary Palestinian has suffered in a land occupied by the Israeli government since 1948 -- when Israel was formally created. The harsh realities of the suicide bombers fill our television screens so frequently that many in the West are immune to the bombings' emotional effects. They are, to many, nothing new in a region which is seen to live by way of the gun.
The displacement of the Palestinian people, however, is not just limited to the borders of Israel, but is also a phenomenon seen in countries such as Lebanon -- a state which is now rebuilding after years of war. Within Lebanon, around 400,000 refugees barely survive in ghetto-like camps on the outskirts of Beirut, Tyre, Tripoli and Sidon.
The largest of these, Ain Al-Helwa, in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, houses some 70,000 people in conditions akin to those of the shantytowns in poverty-stricken Peru.