Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Syrian Conflict: Discussion with Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

4:55 pm

Photo of Joe CostelloJoe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There are no camps in Lebanon. The only camp there is a Palestinian camp and that is why it has come to light now. All of a sudden, there has been a huge new influx of Palestinians who have been displaced from Syria. The old camp is still there from 1948 and it is in rag order. It is hard to imagine people have lived there for all those years. Children have been raised in it and a whole new generation has grown up-----

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