And who will notice this?

Photo on right: A view of the main road in the Nahr al-Bared "new camp" which before the war connected Tripoli in northern Lebanon up to the Lebanon-Syria border.

Photo on left: A view of the "old camp" where still no residents or NGOs have been allowed to enter.

The camp that was home to tens of thousands of Palestinians living in Lebanon has been destroyed. And it was done on purpose. Here is a bit of information that I found in the article "Nahr al-Bared Was Destroyed, But Who Noticed?":

Between May and September of this year, a ferocious battle took place between the Lebanese army and a small armed group known as Fatah al-Islam. From the first the day, the Lebanese army surrounded the camp and fired in artillery, maintaining this course for months. Most of the residents of the camp were forced to leave with the clothes on their backs within the first three days. As the number of young Lebanese soldiers killed and horribly maimed rose through the battle, Lebanon became awash with patriotism and grief, any questioning of the army taboo.

Something terrible has been done to the residents of Nahr al-Bared, and the Lebanese people are being spared the details. Over the past two weeks, since the camp was partly reopened to a few of its residents, many of us who have been there have been stunned by a powerful reality. Beyond the massive destruction of the homes from three months of bombing, room after room, house after house have been burned. Burned from the inside. Amongst the ashes on the ground, are the insides of what appear to have been car tires. The walls have soot dripping down from what seems clearly to have been something flammable sprayed on them. Rooms, houses, shops, garages -- all blackened ruins, yet having had no damage from bombing or battle. They were burned deliberately by people entering and torching them.

There is more at the article, but it is not only the Lebanese people who are in the dark - the entire WORLD is in the dark. Journalists are not allowed in there - sometimes the former residents are not allowed in there.

But here is some other information - the US is proposing a new airfield for the US military in Lebanon. The road from Tipoli to this airfield goes right by this destroyed camp. Furthermore, Sy Hersch has claimed that the US was the likely funder behind the Fatah al Islam group. We know for sure that the US encouraged Lebanon in it's very violent military response to this group, and that plane loads of US bought weapons have made their way into Lebanon over this past summer.

Why has this happened? Why does the world not seem to care? More information at the link.