The War of Return by Adi Schwartz

Author:Adi Schwartz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

By 1969, armed PLO operatives assumed de facto management of the camps in Lebanon and used them for military ends. The Cairo Agreement was signed the same year, granting the PLO formal control of the camps in Lebanon and withdrawing the Lebanese Army.79 Guerrillas started levying taxes on the camps’ residents, setting up law courts, and revising the curriculum at UNRWA schools. One inhabitant of the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp near Beirut described the situation this way:

The first moment I got down from the car I saw the Palestinian flag instead of the Lebanese flag and a group of Palestinians in fedayeen clothes instead of the Lebanese police. As I moved through the crowd I saw happiness on people’s faces … The sheikh in the mosque now spoke clearly about the homeland … In the homes, mothers spoke clearly with their children about Palestine—before this was only done in whisper.80

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