In the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon, no voice is louder than the voice of live broadcasts from the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the various Palestinian towns within the Green Line, whose residents have been subjected to the most violent Israeli aggression for about two weeks.
And inside this camp, from which the effects of the destruction caused by the violent confrontations in mid-2007 between the Lebanese army and the Fatah al-Islam group and led to the displacement of about 27 thousand Palestinian refugees, the refugees fluctuate after following the bloody events in their motherland, between depression and grief as the number of martyrs and wounded rises, and between feeling With victory and pride, with the Palestinian resistance factions' response by firing dozens of rockets at Israeli cities and military sites.
Children inside Nahr Al-Bared camp interact with events in Palestine on their own way (Al-Jazeera)
Inside the camp
The two Palestinians, Hatem Al-Asadi, 66, and Qassem Abdel-Rahim, 70, sit at the sidewalk in Nahr Al-Bared camp, and chat about the renewed hope for victory and return, after decades of disappointment and surrender, as they put it.
Al-Asadi, whose ancestors were traced back to the Acre district, was born in Ain al-Hilweh camp in the south of the country, and then took refuge in Nahr al-Bared camp, after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Despite his contemporary of several wars, he describes what recently occupied Palestine is witnessing war crimes, "but we want its cruelty because of its necessity, because our enemy is a usurper and denies our existence, and we must confront him with blood and sacrifices."
Al-Asadi realizes that "the military battles prove the right of the Palestinians," and expresses his fear to Al-Jazeera Net that the "political negotiations will be formulated later at the expense of our cause under the pretext of a cease-fire."
His companion Abd al-Rahim agrees with him, and he speaks of his concern for an oppressed and violated people in their land, left behind in the countries of asylum without support, "But we believe that the liberation of Palestine and the return to it will be achieved only with the hands of its youth who have proven unparalleled boldness."
Hundreds of meters away from them, the 47-year-old Palestinian Khansa Ghanoumi - who is in charge of the women's office in the Palestinian uprising movement in Nahr al-Bared camp - is participating in coordinating protests and marches in support of Palestine inside the camp, and expressing her pride in the departure of a large number of buses that transported the refugees of the camp to participate In movements at the borders separating occupied Palestine and southern Lebanon.
But Ghanoumi wipes tears from her face as she follows the news of the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Gaza Strip, from bombing residential buildings and committing the most heinous bloody massacres, and “as if we are subjected throughout history to a systematic process of ethnic cleansing to expel what remained of us in Palestine, by dragging or killing civilians, children, women and men. ".
Mrs. Khansa believes that the camps are the title of returning to their country, and she told Al-Jazeera Net that she feels the patience of mothers who give their children martyrs for their land, and wishes that with her only son and three daughters, they penetrate the border fence to fight alongside them.
Young Palestinians climbing the wall separating southern Lebanon and the Palestinian territories (Reuters)
Blood with blood
Elsewhere, the phone of the Hamas official in Nahr al-Bared camp, Abd al-Rahman al-Sharif, does not stop making contacts with the Palestinian interior, and the various factions in the camps in Lebanon, to coordinate their movements through the joint operations room of the Palestinian resistance factions.
The priority of the factions outside Palestine is to mobilize the Arab peoples and the world against the blatant Israeli aggression, as he put it, "because it is a matter of existence and right, for all Arabs, Muslims and Christians."
The paradox in the last battle, according to Al-Sharif's talk to Al-Jazeera Net, is that the resistance factions have established new rules based on the equation of "blood for blood and demolition by demolition," after "we passed the concept of response at the appropriate time and time, because all times and places have become suitable for every attack we are exposed to."
Al-Sharif said that the Palestinian resistance has gone beyond the logic of "reaction" and has become a paradise in the equation against the Israeli occupation, and that "the memory of the Nakba this year marks a new era in the throes of liberation and return, even after a while, instead of crying over the ruins."
Al-Sharif pointed out that the resistance factions had accumulated their strength over the past 7 years (from 2014), which allowed their missiles to reach targets 250 kilometers away, "pushing the Israelis to hide in shelters," stressing that "what comes will surprise the enemy with what is greater."
Young men throw Molotov cocktails from southern Lebanon towards northern Palestine (European)
Lebanon reacts
In reality, the Palestinian events are at the forefront of the attention of the Lebanese, despite their country plunged into historically unprecedented crises, and it is witnessing widespread interaction on social media platforms to denounce the human crimes committed by the occupation army against the Palestinians.
On the ground, Lebanon witnessed marches over the past 3 days that included Lebanese and Palestinians at the southern border separating it with occupied Palestine, amid intense measures by the Lebanese army in the border villages, and a wide spread of UNIFIL forces operating in southern Lebanon.
Some demonstrators crossed the security fence, climbed the concrete border wall, broke surveillance cameras and set up party and Palestinian flags.
These moves resulted in the fall of the Lebanese youth, Muhammad Tahan, a martyr (on Friday), and a number of wounded, after Israeli soldiers threw rubber bullets at protesters, and also fired smoke and flares around the place.
Here, Palestinian Ahmad Wahbi (34 years), who is from Ain al-Hilweh camp in southern Lebanon and participated in the rallies at the border, indicates that “the Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators wanted to breach the separation fence to enter the Palestinian territories were it not for the violence of the Israeli soldiers,” and confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that this The moves will continue, despite all the obstacles, because "the goal is to support our people in the Palestinian interior, regardless of the cost."
From marches in Abbasiya, southern Lebanon, at the border with occupied Palestine (Al-Jazeera)
Young daring
There are 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon from north to south, and witness to interaction with Palestinian events, whether by raising flags, pictures of martyrs and slogans of the right of return, or by organizing marches and vigils.
According to the last official census of the Lebanese and Palestinian authorities (2017) - through the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee - these camps contain about 174,000 refugees.
In addition to about 27 thousand Palestinian refugees who have been displaced from their camps in Syria to Lebanon since 2011, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
In the context, the Palestinian Zuhur Akkawi, a social worker at the Beit Al-Somoud Foundation, in the Shatila camp, south of Beirut, says that the pace of interaction with the bloody battles inside the Palestinian territories is escalating inside the camps in light of the intensification of the battles in Palestine.
She added to Al-Jazeera Net, "Young people are the main drivers of the various protest movements, and they have proven that their cause does not die with succession of generations, but rather bequeathed to it with greater awareness of their right, because the development of digital media exposes the enemy's crimes in front of them, and it pushes Israel to try to block the image at any cost."