Lebanon seeks $382m to rebuild refugee camp

The Lebanese government said yesterday it would cost $382.5 million to rebuild a Palestinian refugee camp shattered by the summer's fighting between the army and Al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants, and appealed to the international community to help.

The UN relief agency, meanwhile, appealed for $55 million in emergency funding.

The appeal came at a donors' conference in Beirut that Lebanon called to seek international help to rebuild the Nahr el-Bared camp in the country's north, and allow over 30,000 of its residents to return.