Mieh Mieh refugee camp

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Mieh Mieh refugee camp (

refugees in the camp generally came from Saffourieh, Tiereh, Haifa and Miron, in what is now Israel.[1] It was established in 1954 on land leased from private landowners of the Miye ou Miye
village. Around the 1990s, the Mieh Mieh camp was located on 60 dunams (15 acres) in Miye ou Miye village. Today, the camp is 1.8 times that size at 108 dunams (27 acres). In 2003, it had a population of 5,037.

During the

United Nations Relief and Works Agency school and distribution center were destroyed.[2]

On 4 July 1991, following the failure of disarmament negotiations, as required by the

Lebanese Army attacked Palestinian positions in Southern Lebanon. The offensive, involving 10,000 troops against an estimated 5,000 militia, lasted 3 days and ended with the Army taking all the Palestinian positions around Sidon. In the agreement that followed all heavy weapons were surrendered and infantry weapons only allowed in the two refugee camps, Ain al-Hilweh and Mieh Mieh. 73 people were killed in the fighting, and 200 wounded, mostly Palestinian.[3][4]

The socio-economic situation of the refugees is described by the UNRWA as "extremely difficult". Men find work as daily-paid laborers on construction sites and in orchards. Women work in orchards, in embroidery workshops and as cleaners. All shelters are supplied with water through a network connected to the Agency's water plant. Al-Najdeh Al-Sha'bieh is the only

NGO active in Mieh Mieh and provides house decorating courses for Palestinian youths. There are two UNRWA elementary/preparatory schools in the camp, which had an enrollment of 1,020 pupils in 2003/04.[2]

Two people were killed in a gun battle in Mieh Mieh camp on 21 March 2009.

Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon, visited the camp to calm the situation on 23 March 2009. Shortly after leaving the camp, a roadside bomb killed him and three others, close to Mieh Mieh.[5]

Clashes between

Amal movement and Hezbollah.[7] Ansar Allah was founded in the 1990s by Jamal Suleiman who had been a Fatah activist but gravitated to align himself with Hezbollah and the Amal movement during the Lebanese Civil War.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Where We Work | UNRWA". Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  2. ^
    United Nations Relief and Works Agency
    . December 31, 2003.
  3. ^ Middle East International No 404, 12 July 1991, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; p.3 Jim Muir, pp.4,5 Godfrey Jansen, Lamis Andoni
  4. ^ Journal of Palestine Studies 81 Volume XXI, Number 1, Autumn 1991, University of California Press. pp.193,194 Chronology quoting Los Angeles Times 7/6, Mideast Mirror (MEM), London 7/5
  5. ^ BBC Lebanon bomb kills PLO official 23 march 2009
  6. ^ a b c Lebanese army deployed to Palestinian camp after Fatah-Ansar Allah clash
  7. ^ Palestinian Leader of Hezbollah-linked Ansar Allah leaves Lebanon to Syria

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