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Lebanon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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Deteriorating relations between the different factions and widespread fighting displaced many families in 1990 and increased the social and economic disruption in the country. For some periods, Beirut came under daily shelling and civilians left the city and its suburbs en masse for safer areas, in particular southern Lebanon. The heavy loss of life and resources weakened the already fragile economic and social structures.

Type
Field Operations
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 30 , supplement S1: Supplementary Reference Report , December 1990 , pp. 83 - 84
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1990

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