For more than a year, Umm Haitham and her children have lived in this school, a crumbling classroom they share with other displaced Palestinian families in the Beddawi refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Their homes in the nearby Nahr al-Bared refugee camp were destroyed in five months of fighting last year between al Qaida-linked Islamists and the Lebanese Army. The camp's reconstruction is barely underway and progress is slow. For Nahr al Bared's 40,000-strong population, it's a frustrating time. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED NAHR AL-BARED REFUGEE UMM HAITHAM SAYING: ''I want them to rebuild the camp, so that we can come and go as we like.'' (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED NAHR AL-BARED REFUGEE SHEHADEH ZAIDAN SAYING: They have been telling us they want to rebuild but they have not rebuilt anything yet. All they do is give us caravans. The caravans are hot, there are scorpions and snakes there, and we can't live in them. The 'old camp' area - where most of the destruction...
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