The creation of Palestinian refugees was a direct consequence of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. From 1947-1950, in what Palestinians call the Nakba or catastrophe, Zionist militias (and later the Israeli army) instigated expelled or fled their homes in more than 750,000 Palestinians. About 100,000 Palestinian refugees sought refuge in Lebanon as a result of the Nakba and their presence was considered a threat to the sectarian political system founded some of the country [1]. More than sixty years after Lebanon's government still does not offer a public statistics of Palestinian refugees in the country. In its statistical report this month January 2010 the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA, its acronym in English) said that currently there were 425,640 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. Of these, 53% reside in 12 official refugee camps, while the rest live in both cities and villages in Lebanon and in refugee camps or unofficial meetings "Palestinians" [2]. However, UNRWA statistics are not complete because it does not include non-registered Palestinian refugees who arrived in Lebanon between 1952 and 1956 and to those who entered the country after 1970 and that Palestinians are considered "undocumented" [3 ].
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