#the jungle
Lebanon Diaries: Final Day
On our last day in Lebanon we visited a family living in Jal al-Bahr, an unofficial Palestinian refugee camp located on the Tyre coast.
With no barrier to protect the camp from the harsh winds of winter, houses are destroyed and damaged year after year. Every winter, crashing waves, higher each year, come pounding into the camp, wrecking everything in their path. The flimsy homes people have made for themselves afford them little shelter from the elements. Families are forced to watch their homes disappear every year with little hope of proper reconstruction or repair.
Just imagine yourself in their place, the fear you would feel for your children if they lived in these conditions.
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Just watched a Netflix documentary about the end of the Jungle camp in Calais. Not sure I’ve got much to say about it, except it’s clear that people who would choose to live in those conditions (and what has come after) are clearly desperate.
As is said several times on the documentary, when you’ve risked your life over and over to leave a terrible situation, you’re going to carry on risking it until you feel safe.
If the government truly cared about people dying in boats or in the back of lorries, they’d offer safe, legal routes to the UK.
Instead, all they care about is looking tough to the Far Right.
