Published : 14-04-2021
Palestinian activists launched an e-campaign under the hashtag #MayYourHandGetBroken in protest at the assault carried out by a man called Atallah AlHassan, from the Palestine Embassy in Beirut, against a Palestinian refugee woman.
Atallah reportedly slapped the woman on her face at the same time as a number of Fatah Movement affiliates attacked a number of Palestinian refugees who joined a vigil held outside of the embassy on April 12 to push for urgent humanitarian assistance.
Over 470,000 refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon. About 45 per cent of them live in the country’s 12 refugee camps. Conditions in the camps are dire and characterized by overcrowding, poor housing conditions, unemployment, poverty and lack of access to justice.
Palestinians in Lebanon do not enjoy several important rights; for example, they cannot work in many professions and cannot own property (real estate). Because they are not formally citizens of another state, Palestine refugees are unable to claim the same rights as other foreigners living and working in Lebanon.
Palestinian activists launched an e-campaign under the hashtag #MayYourHandGetBroken in protest at the assault carried out by a man called Atallah AlHassan, from the Palestine Embassy in Beirut, against a Palestinian refugee woman.
Atallah reportedly slapped the woman on her face at the same time as a number of Fatah Movement affiliates attacked a number of Palestinian refugees who joined a vigil held outside of the embassy on April 12 to push for urgent humanitarian assistance.
Over 470,000 refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon. About 45 per cent of them live in the country’s 12 refugee camps. Conditions in the camps are dire and characterized by overcrowding, poor housing conditions, unemployment, poverty and lack of access to justice.
Palestinians in Lebanon do not enjoy several important rights; for example, they cannot work in many professions and cannot own property (real estate). Because they are not formally citizens of another state, Palestine refugees are unable to claim the same rights as other foreigners living and working in Lebanon.
