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BEIRUT - At the edge of a sprawling Palestinian camp in south Beirut, Syrian volunteers unload two dozen boxes from the trunk of a taxi. Young boys help carry them into the dark, narrow alleyways where families peer out from underground houses that were bomb shelters during Lebanon's past civil wars.

Down a series of winding passageways and into a two-room house, the boxes are dropped off. Syrian volunteers open and count the medical supplies: bandages, cotton swabs and the pain relievers, all obtained from Doctors Without Borders.

 

 

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