A new UNRWA campaign is tackling the high rate of iron deficiency (anaemia) among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, where one-in-four pregnant Palestinian women suffer from the disorder, as do a high number of children under the age of three. In Burj Shemali camp near Tyre, for example, an UNRWA survey found some 80 per cent of children under three to be anaemic.

BEIRUT: Since his death at the age of 36, Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani has become something of a legend. Journalist, literary critic, novelist and spokesman of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine, he produced an extraordinary body of work in his short life.

BEIRUT: Now in its tenth year and still no closer to achieving its goal, the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition vowed Monday to continue its fight for the right to return to Palestine, and not just for third-country resettlement.

In a tiny Palestinian refugee camp that stares at the azure Mediterranean Sea, sweating workers toil at a noisy concrete mixer as they raced before sunset to finish construction of the last pillar that will hold the upper level of a small house.