Mandate & Independence · event 4 of 7

1948

The refugees arrive. Around 100,000 Palestinians displaced by the founding of Israel reach Lebanon and are settled in camps intended as temporary. Their descendants are still there, still without citizenship and still barred from most professions.

The Mandate & Independence era

  1. 1920
  2. 1932
  3. 1943
  4. 1948
  5. 1958
  6. 1966
  7. 1968

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