Published : 26-02-2021
Palestinian activists said displaced Palestinian refugees in Lebanon’s AlBekaa region who tested positive for coronavirus have been left without medicines.
The infected refugees slammed UNRWA for turning blind eyes to their distress calls, saying the phone calls carried out by the Agency should rather be replaced by medical aid.
Some 800 Palestinian families from Syria have been facing squalid humanitarian conditions in AlBekaa region.
According to information collected by UNRWA, more than 80 per cent of PRS indicate that the Agency’s cash assistance is their main source of income. 95 per cent of PRS are food insecure, while about 89 per cent of PRS live in poverty. 36 to 57 per cent of PRS youth face unemployment. In August and September 2019, UNRWA conducted a verification exercise of PRS in Lebanon and verified the physical presence of 27,803 PRS in the country.
The number of PRS in Lebanon has been gradually decreasing over the past three years, and UNRWA estimated that in 2020 the country hosted approximately 27,700 PRS (8,450 families).
UNRWA said PRS’s vulnerability is further compounded by their precarious legal status. According to the Agency’s monitoring data, around 55 percent of PRS do not possess valid legal residency documents.
The lack of a valid legal status, often coupled with outdated civil registration documents, results in severely restricted freedom of movement for some PRS in Lebanon due to fear of arrest, detention and being issued a departure order.
Palestinian activists said displaced Palestinian refugees in Lebanon’s AlBekaa region who tested positive for coronavirus have been left without medicines.
The infected refugees slammed UNRWA for turning blind eyes to their distress calls, saying the phone calls carried out by the Agency should rather be replaced by medical aid.
Some 800 Palestinian families from Syria have been facing squalid humanitarian conditions in AlBekaa region.
According to information collected by UNRWA, more than 80 per cent of PRS indicate that the Agency’s cash assistance is their main source of income. 95 per cent of PRS are food insecure, while about 89 per cent of PRS live in poverty. 36 to 57 per cent of PRS youth face unemployment. In August and September 2019, UNRWA conducted a verification exercise of PRS in Lebanon and verified the physical presence of 27,803 PRS in the country.
The number of PRS in Lebanon has been gradually decreasing over the past three years, and UNRWA estimated that in 2020 the country hosted approximately 27,700 PRS (8,450 families).
UNRWA said PRS’s vulnerability is further compounded by their precarious legal status. According to the Agency’s monitoring data, around 55 percent of PRS do not possess valid legal residency documents.
The lack of a valid legal status, often coupled with outdated civil registration documents, results in severely restricted freedom of movement for some PRS in Lebanon due to fear of arrest, detention and being issued a departure order.
