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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 26, 2023 | SaltWireBURJ AL-BARAJNEH CAMP, Lebanon - For aging refugees in Lebanon, seeing Palestinians caught up in a new conflict in Gaza revives painful memories of their own flight during war in 1948 from villages and towns that were once in British-ruled Palestine and are now part of Israel.
Palestinians fled to Lebanon and other Arab states in what they call the"Nakba", or catastrophe, when they were driven from their homes as Israel was created in 1948, although Israel contests the assertion that they were forced to leave. "The situation is literally miserable," says Walaa Kayyal from Asylos, a British charity that researches asylum cases, adding that Palestinians who fled to Lebanon are facing"the worst situation" compared to those who went to other countries in 1948.
Since Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel launched its devastating airstrikes on Gaza in response, more graffiti has appeared. Meanwhile, many in Gaza, a narrow strip of land just 40 km long where 2.3 million people live, most of them also Palestinian refugees from what is now Israel, have been displaced again.
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