"There is no better place to witness and document the plight of Lebanon's refugees than Nahr al-Bared.
It was such conditions that contributed to the destruction of the refugee camp, in 2007, as troops from the Lebanese army fought with Islamist militants. In May of that year, fierce fighting erupted here - a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. The Lebanese army bombarded militants from Fatah al-Islam, who had taken root in the squalid, hopeless conditions. The camp was destroyed and 27,000 Palestinian refugees fled, among them one remarkable family. Modest ambitions A few miles from what used to be their home in Nahr al-Bared, we met the Sabanis. In 2007 they lost everything when they fled the fighting."