Bourj el-Barajneh

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Bourj el-Barajneh (Arabic: برج البراجنة, lit.

In October 1948 families from Tarshiha began arriving in Beirut shortly after the conquest by the Israeli army of their village in Western Galilee.

Initially families lived in rented rooms around Bourj el Barajneh which at that time was a suburb on the fringe of the city.

About half of the 3,000 villagers from Tarshiha arriving in Lebanon settled there in what became Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp, established by the League of Red Cross Societies.

The camp was laid siege to by the Israeli army and Lebanese Christian Phalangists during 1982, after Israel invaded Lebanon earlier that year.