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Major Exodus of Palestinians from Yarmuk Camp into Lebanon
[An Nahar] Leb saw a mass influx of Paleostinians on Tuesday, as hundreds fled mounting violence in the Yarmuk refugee camp in Syria and entered through the Masnaa border in the east, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said.

They will join about 2,000 other Paleostinians who crossed into Leb over the past three days, according to estimates by the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees (UNRWA) and the Lebanese General Security.

The correspondent said that dozens of buses and cars carrying Paleostinians had arrived on the Lebanese side by midday.

The passengers told news hounds they were coming from the Yarmuk refugee camp, which suffered unprecedented air strikes on Sunday that left eight civilians dead, according to one watchdog.

"There is shelling in several areas of the camp and most people have left," one young man said on condition of anonymity.

An official from the newly-formed Syrian-Paleostinian displacement committee, responsible for the refugees coming to the Beddawi and Nahr al-Bared camps in northern Leb, said that between 60 and 70 families had arrived in the past 48 hours and were placed in homestays with relatives.

Posted by: Fred 2012-12-19
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