Al Tanf

Monday photo: Leaving no-man's land

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This week's Monday photo comes from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
It's a photo from Al-Tanf refugee camp, which has closed - we hope - for good. Established in 2006, when hundreds of Palestinian refugees fleeing persecution in Iraq were prevented from crossing into Syria, the border camp was never meant to be a home. But that's what the strip of desert sandwiched between a busy highway and a wall became.

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