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The Twice Refugees of Shatila

Shatila is a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Beirut, It was established for a number of about 3000 people after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to accommodate the Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
In Lebanon there are 12 Palestinian refugee camps with around 500,000 registered refugees. Lebanon´s neighboring country Syria once gave shelter to another 560,000 Palestinian refugees in 13 camps. Since the the Syrian civil war started more than 110,000 Syrian-born Palestinians have fled Syria, becoming so called „twice refugees“. As a consequence, the numbers of refugees In Shatila went up from 10,000 in 2014 to an estimate of 24,000 people, who are now squeezed together on approximately one square kilometer. The camp allegedly has one of the highest urban population densities in the world and it bursts at the seams, a dark, cramped concrete labyrinth with high criminality rates, and the twice refugees from Syria all share one hope only: to be able to leave this prison and fly to another country as soon as possible. Year: 2017
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Pigeons fly over the roofs of the provisionally erected houses, which are now up to 10 storeys high.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A tangle of water and power lines extends like a spider's web over the narrow alleys of the refugee camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A boy runs through one of the camps streets with it´s tangled water pipes and electricity cables
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: The hard struggle  and disappointed hopes characterize the faces of many people in the camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A drone shot shows the roofs with the water tanks of the buildings of the refugee camps.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Children of Syrian refugees  playing in the streets of the refugee camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Hanadi Khalid Ristawi, her 4 children and her father live in a 20 square meters sized room. When the family had to flee from the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, the camps in Beirut were their closest option for shelter. Like most of the refugees from Syria the family wants to leave Shatila, because the living conditions there are harsh and the damp walls in the room pose a serious health risk.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017:
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: For  Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad and his family the only connection to the world outside is a smartphone. He, his wife Nawal and his children live in the camp since 2013.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017:  Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad, a Palestinian refugee who was fleeing to the camp from Syriah, cleans the streets of the camp to to earn some money for his family.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: Ahmad Hussine (43), who fled to Syria after the Shatila massacre and had to return to Shatila after the outbreak of the Syrian war, has been ill in bed for years. Since his back in Shatila he lies in a dark room without a window. He says his only wish is to leave the camp as soon as possible.
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  • Fussball spielende Kinder in Flüchtlingscamp Shatila in Beirut, Libanon 2017
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A boy suffers from an eye infection. Many people in Shatila suffer from infections which are caused by humidity and very high mould concentrations at the refugee Camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: The very limited space and the narrow alleys  cannot keep the children of the camp from at least playing soccer together.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A kid leans out of a window over one of the streets of the refugee camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. The view from one of the high buildings in Shatila on the city of Beirut. The refugees are allowed to leave the camp, but not to work or get property anywhere else.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. On the roof of the highest buying in the camp a boy is breading pigeons. He comes to the roof almost every day to look after his birds.
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