Twice Displaced: Syria's Palestinian Refugees Flee to Lebanon

August 27, 2012 from Voice of America

A half million Palestinian refugees are registered in Syria . Most have remained there but, with the escalation of fighting in and around their camps last month, hundreds of Palestinian families began seeking safer havens in neighboring Lebanon. As VOA's Margaret Besheer reports from Beirut, these Palestinians have now been twice displaced.

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