Word: barajneh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camps near Beirut airport that had been bombed by Israeli jets. In one of the dingy rooms on the fourth floor lay Autra Waehe'h, 43, who had deep shrapnel wounds in her right side. An Israeli bomb had crashed into the house next to hers at Bourjel-Barajneh refugee camp. The blast knocked out a wall of Mrs. Waehe'h's house, killing her 23-year-old daughter and seriously injuring her 16-year-old son. Waehe'h, a Palestinian, talked only of her desire to return home to her shattered house and start...
...northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O. and Syrian sympathizers killed ten and wounded ten more. A day later, a third explosion killed two and injured several more in the low-income Beirut suburb of Bourj-el-Barajneh, a P.L.O. stronghold; the Front also claimed to have been behind that bombing...