 ""After the 1969 agreement in which the Lebanese government recognized the presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon, and its control of the camps, the Rashidieh residents worked the Jaftalak fields surrounding the camp without paying any fees.Each farmer could choose a plot of land to plant and they would come to be (informally) known as the owner of that plot.The Jaftalak land was public land divided between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, and other-defined state land.