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- <title>
- Jan. 11, 1993: Outcast, Isolated, Running Out of Time
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 10
- Outcast, Isolated and Running Out of Time
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The deported Palestinians remain stranded, with no help in sight
- </p>
- <p> Dr. Abdul Aziz Rantisi, the spokesman for 415 Palestinians
- expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry
- landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This
- is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would
- be beautiful if this weren't so tragic."
- </p>
- <p> Each attempt to find a solution to the exiles' predicament--or at least to provide them temporary relief--was going
- nowhere. France offered to dispatch doctors to check the health
- of the men, who were deported for allegedly inciting Muslim
- fundamentalist violence. Both Israel and Lebanon, which refuses
- to absorb the exiles, said no. Israel said it would let the Red
- Cross ferry relief supplies to the group through
- Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon if the Lebanese would permit
- a simultaneous shipment through their territory. Beirut said no.
- Visiting U.N. Under Secretary-General James Jonah wasn't even
- allowed to go to the camp of the deportees because neither side
- was willing to grant him passage.
- </p>
- <p> Still, the group managed to scrape by, thanks to food and
- fuel supplies smuggled to them by sympathetic villagers in
- Lebanon. Meanwhile Israeli officials admitted that they had
- expelled 10 of the men by mistake, but added that nine would
- face charges should they return. Reiterating that they would not
- take the exiles back, the Israelis suggested that the men be
- resettled in a third country, perhaps in Europe or the Arab
- world. A number of deportees said they would stick it out in
- their camp until they were allowed home. But the snow was piling
- up.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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