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May 11, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/middleeast/06lebanon.html

Invisible Palestinians Exist in Legal Limbo in Lebanon

[New York Times] Nada Bakri - Three generations of the Hamdallah family have lived in Lebanon, where not a single member of the family has been allowed to graduate from school, legally marry, or hold a job. The UN estimates that more than 400,000 Palestinians live in Lebanon - refugees, their children, and their children's children - all denied many basic rights. Palestinians have been denied citizenship in Lebanon for years, and they are prohibited from practicing more than 70 professions. "This is a problem [that is] not going to go away on its own; now is the time to solve it," said Richard J. Cook, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

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