The daily Star - Group sets fire to UNRWA clinic after nurse's death, February 21, 2012

By Mohammed Zaatari

SIDON, Lebanon: A group of Lebanese and Palestinians, furious over the death of a nurse, set a United Nations Relief and Works (UNRWA) clinic on fire near the southern city of Tyre Tuesday.

The crowd also set ablaze an UNRWA car parked outside the clinic in the Shabriha Palestinian refugee camp in the Tyre district.

They were protesting the death of a Lebanese nurse who had been denied a referral by the UNRWA clinic.

The nurse, married to a Palestinian man, was eligible to receive health services from UNRWA. However, she appears to have required treatment at a full-fledged hospital, for which a referral from UNRWA would have been necessary. The referral was denied for unknown reasons.

The identity of the nurse was not revealed.


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