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Dbayeh camp is aPalestinian refugee camp located next toDbayeh, 12 kilometers east of the city ofBeirut on a hill overlooking the highway connecting Beirut andTripoli.[1]
The camp was established in 1956 with the aim of sheltering Palestinian refugees who came from theGalilee area in northern Palestine, especially fromAl-Bassa, and some families fromKfar Baram,Iqrit,Haifa andAcre, most of whom are Christians. There are currently more than 4,000 refugees living in the camp.
Because of its strategic location, the camp suffered a lot of violence during the Lebanese Civil War. 70 of the people of the camp were executed in 1976 by thePhalange Party and its associates. In 1990, a quarter of its homes were destroyed or severely damaged while more than 100 families living in it, most of them Christian Palestinian refugees, were displaced. It is the only remaining Palestinian refugee camp in the eastern suburbs of Beirut. The camp's infrastructure is currently undergoing extensive rehabilitation work.
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