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The Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps

With millions of displaced Palestinians around the world, hundreds of thousands are refugees in their own country.

In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps.

With millions of displaced Palestinians around the world, hundreds of thousands are refugees in their own country — many have lived packed into these refugee camps after being ethnically cleansed from their villages just miles away.

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