page_title: 2007 Lebanon conflict
section_title: Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 Lebanon conflict / Background / Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
caption_attribution_description: Narrow street in Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon, near the city of Tripoli. The picture was taken during the summer of 2005, two years before the conflict which devastated the camp.
context_page_description: The 2007 Lebanon conflict began when fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam, an Islamist militant organization, and the Lebanese Armed Forces on May 20, 2007 in Nahr al-Bared, an UNRWA Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli.
  It was the most severe internal fighting since Lebanon's 1975–90 civil war. The conflict revolved mostly around the siege of Nahr el-Bared, but minor clashes also occurred in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon and several terrorist bombings took place in and around Lebanon's capital, Beirut. Fighting ended in September 2007.
context_section_description: Lebanon is home to more than 400,000 Palestinian refugees, some 215,000 of whom live in camps, including the descendants of those who fled from Palestine during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1962, Palestinians were categorized as foreigners in Lebanon, regardless of how long they had lived there. Non-Lebanese, which included the refugees, were restricted from working in over 70 skilled professions until 2005, when new legislation officially opened 50 such jobs to them. The civil war left Lebanon's government and the general Lebanese populace deeply suspicious of Palestinian refugees because of their involvement in the Lebanese war. Yet, under a 1969 Arab accord, later annulled by the Lebanese Parliament in the mid-1980s but maintained in principle, the government has been reluctant to enter the camps.
  
  The current residents of the camps are currently denied access to their homeland or neighboring Arab nations.
  The Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp is situated 16 km north of Tripoli near the coastal road and had been under scrutiny since February, when two buses were bombed in Ain Alak, a predominantly Christian village near Bikfaya. Fatah al-Islam militants based in the camp were blamed. About 30,000 displaced Palestinians live in the camp.
caption: Narrow street in Nahr al-Bared, 2005
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