Quality of Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

The Aza refugee camp in Bethlehem, Palestine, was built in 1950 to house Palestinians who lost their homes and lands when Israel was created in 1948. Currently about 2,100 people live there in apartments that from the outside look like a concrete block honeycomb. Aza is one of the smallest of the 27 camps run by the U.N. (OR United Nations) in the West Bank and Gaza which together house almost a million refugees. Within those apartments live children, young adults and older people who remember moving into the camp when it was brand new. Interviews with several families reveal a common belief in the right of Palestinians to return to their lands, but some differences in how they think a resolution might be achieved. Melinda Tuhus reports from Bethlemhem.

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