Palestinian refugee camps

First aid responders search for human remains in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Ain al-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees, near Sidon in southern Lebanon, on November 19, 2025. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hamas slams Israeli 'lies' on deadly Lebanon refugee camp strike

Hamas denied Israeli allegations that the airstrike targeted a training compound in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, which killed 13 people

The New Arab Staff
19 November, 2025
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Guns for rights? Lebanon's campaign to disarm Palestinian camps

Ali Awadah
28 October, 2025
I came to Britain from Gaza seeking hope. Instead I found despair
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I came to UK from Gaza seeking hope. Instead, I found complicity

Saher Safi

Saher Safi

23 September, 2025
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Lebanese army busts major drug ring in Palestinian camp raid

The New Arab Staff
20 September, 2025
A fighter fires live rounds into the air from an assault rifle during a funeral procession at the Beddawi camp for Palestinian refugees near Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on September 30, 2024. (Photo by FATHI AL-MASRI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinians to surrender weapons in north Lebanon refugee camp

The New Arab Staff
12 September, 2025
The Lebanese army makes preparations, under tight security measures, for the weapon handover at the Burj el-Barajneh Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon on August 29, 2025. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Fatah surrenders more weapons in south of Beirut camp

The New Arab Staff
30 August, 2025
The Lebanese army makes preparations, under tight security measures, for the weapon handover in the El-Buss and Rashidieh refugee camps in Tyre, southern Lebanon on 28, 2025. (Photo by Ahmad Kaddoura/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Lebanon
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Lebanon 'could ban' Hamas, as more Palestinian camps disarm

The New Arab Staff
28 August, 2025
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon to start handing over weapons under a government plan to bring arms under state control in Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp of Beirut, Lebanon on August 21, 2025. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Palestinians in Lebanon hand over weapons: What happens next?

The New Arab Staff
22 August, 2025
Fighters stand with their arms in the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 21, 2025 as they start handing over their weapons to the Lebanese authorities. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinian factions begin handing over weapons in Beirut camp

The New Arab Staff
21 August, 2025
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Lebanon
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Lebanon delays disarmament of Palestinian groups in Beirut camps

The New Arab Staff
Rita El Jammal
16 June, 2025
Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary Azzam Al-Ahmad arrived in Beirut on Sunday for a four-day visit to arrange meetings on the weapons handover and establish a timeline.
Lebanon
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Is Lebanon's plan to disarm Palestinian camps 'half-baked'?

Ali Awadah
05 June, 2025
Mahmoud Abbas
Lebanon
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Abbas in Beirut as Lebanon moves to disarm Palestinian factions

Rita El Jammal
The New Arab Staff
21 May, 2025
Israel is demolishing homes in Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps
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Israeli forces to demolish more than 100 homes in West Bank

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 May, 2025
A man holding a gun stands guard as Palestinian refugees hold a demonstration in support of Gaza at Ain al-Hilweh Refugee Camp in Sidon, Lebanon on May 30, 2021. (Photo by Ali Hankir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Abbas to visit Lebanon for talks on disarming Palestinian camps

The New Arab Staff
27 April, 2025
Philippe Lazzarini
UNRWA
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UNRWA chief in Damascus to discuss support of Palestinians

The New Arab Staff
15 April, 2025
Israeli army soldiers stand outside an armoured vehicle during an attack on Nablus in the occupied West Bank on 8 April 2025. [Getty]
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Israel aims to obliterate West Bank's Palestinian refugee status

Fayha Shalash
09 April, 2025
Israeli shelling that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Khiam
Lebanon-Israel conflict
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Thousands flee Palestinian camp in Lebanon after Israeli threats

The New Arab Staff
31 October, 2024
Palestinian demonstrators take part in a march to mark the forty year anniversary for the Sabra and Shatila massacre outside the Sabra camp for Palestinian refugees, in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beiru
Sabra and Shatila
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Palestinians remember the Sabra and Shatila massacre 42 years on

The New Arab Staff
16 September, 2024
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Life and struggles in Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps

The New Arab Staff

Lavinia Nocelli

27 June, 2024
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Israel launches ground attack on Rafah's Shaboura refugee camp

The New Arab Staff
12 June, 2024
Gaza War
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12 killed in Jenin amid ongoing Israeli raids on West Bank camps

The New Arab Staff
23 May, 2024