Lamis stands next to the fifth-floor window of her hospital room, looking out over the playground of a school in Beirut’s Al-Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood.
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In the poorly lit stairwell of Haifa Hospital in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp, a large poster depicting the ancient city of Jerusalem, dominated by the gold crown of the Dome of the Rock, declares: “Visit Al-Quds.” It’s an aspiration that seems a long way off, as the Palestinian residents of the southern Beirut camp – facing poverty and heavy restrictions on rights to work – are struggling to access even basic health care services in a system under severe pressure.
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Iman Moussa is a quiet child, but has a bright smile that masks the fact that the 3-year-old with rich black hair and olive skin has spent the last year undergoing chemotherapy for cancer that once rendered her immobile. However, neither her mother nor her doctor are smiling, as the money for Moussa’s treatment is running out and with it her options.
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