Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which sponsored the relief mission, also donated two truckloads of food supplies to Shiite Moslems living in slums around the camp, police said...
Witnesses said the trucks came under fire a few yards from the entrance to the camp, which has been ringed by Amal forces since November 24. There have been reports that many of the camp's estimated 35,000 residents are malnourished and that some are near starvation...
Some PLO officials have said inhabitants of Bourj el-Barajneh had resorted to eating cats, dogs and rats. Reporters have not been able to verify these reports because they were not allowed through the Amal lines to enter the camp...
...year-old Fadi Shaker, who sneaked out from the camp, told journalists: "Almost every man, woman and child has eaten cats or dogs, donkeys or mules. Now there's a shortage of animals...
...have gone to west Beirut's Mar Elias camp, controlled by Druse militiamen, who have stayed neutral in the fighting around Bourj el-Barajneh and the nearby Chatilla camp...