Displaced families living in tents along Beirut’s waterfront have created a symbolic village, naming shelters after their home towns in southern Lebanon to preserve dignity and connection to their roots. The makeshift community includes kitchens, guest areas, and electricity, offering a sense of normality amid the indefinite limbo of displacement.
Now, Beirut authorities plan to relocate the camp to Sport City stadium to reclaim the waterfront for summer events, but residents are refusing to move, citing unbearable noise, lack of privacy, and further loss of dignity at the proposed site.
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from Beirut, Lebanon.
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