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Lebanon: ICRC completes primary water supply to ruined refugee camp

March 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

BEIRUT, 6 March 2008 (IRIN) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed rebuilding the primary water supply network in currently accessible areas of the ruined Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, north Lebanon.

Up to 90 percent of the water infrastructure in the areas of Nahr al-Bared outside the official boundary of the “old camp” was damaged or destroyed in a 15-week battle in the summer of 2007 between the army and Islamist militants, according to the ICRC.

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