The fighting in Ein al-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon between Fatah militants and Islamist armed groups didn’t happen in a vacuum. Lebanese analysts speculate that Israel and the PA are behind recent tensions.
Abdul Rahman Katanani’s art is not an identification with the refugee camp’s misery, but an attempt to show all that is beautiful and painful in it, showing the camp to those who can’t enter it, those who don’t want to, and those who fear it.
Palestinian refugees that died at sea when their boat capsized as they sought asylum in Europe left behind bereaved families amid worsening conditions in Lebanon.
Palestinians in Lebanon sympathize with Americans weeping over Donald Trump. The new president of Lebanon also is hostile to refugees.