The 70,000 Palestinians caught in refugee limbo

Arafat's End Game - Lebanon, 1 October 1999 We examine the declining support for Arafat in Lebanan's Palestinian refuge camps. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... In battle fatigues, marching in military quick step, Fatah's new recruits sing old PLO songs. This is the only footage of Arafat's first batch of freshly trained soldiers. They've been pressed with the task of renewing PLO support amongst the 70,000 Palestinians crammed into Lebanon's largest refugee camp, Ain Helweh. "Our chairman Arafat has instructed us to ease the economic and social conditions of our people in the camps", explains Abu Adham, Fatah's most senior official. Yet most of their budget is being spent on arms. The refugees of Ain Helweh are wary of Arafat's power plays. He's regarded as the betrayer who failed to address their plight in the 1993 Oslo peace accords. Most people here have no time for Fatah whose troops did nothing when the Lebanese recently demolished refugee homes to make way for a road. They refugees want a future. They don't want to be a political football in Arafat's end game. For more information and downloads, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/0668 Like us on Facebook:   / journeymanpictures   Follow us on Twitter:   / journeymannews     / journeymanvod   Follow us on Instagram:   / journeymanpictures   Produced by Flint - film ref. number: 668