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Vigil Held in Ramallah to Protest Assault on Palestinian Refugee Woman

Published : 16-04-2021

Vigil Held in Ramallah to Protest Assault on Palestinian Refugee Woman

Dozens of Palestinian refugees joined on Thursday, April 15, a vigil held by the Unified Palestinian Movement (UPM) in Ramallah in solidarity with an elderly Palestinian woman from Syria who was slapped on her face by an embassy staffer in Beirut.

Last week a man called Atallah AlHassan, from the Palestine Embassy in Beirut and a Fatah affiliate, reportedly slapped the woman on her face as she joined a vigil held outside of the embassy to push for urgent humanitarian assistance. 

UPM urged the Prime Minister to launch a fact-finding committee in order to hold the Palestinian Ambassador in Lebanon and parties involved in the assault to account.

UPM warned that it will escalate protest moves in cases serious responses to the assault would not be made and promised to speak up against the case at legislative elections.

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.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/11584

Dozens of Palestinian refugees joined on Thursday, April 15, a vigil held by the Unified Palestinian Movement (UPM) in Ramallah in solidarity with an elderly Palestinian woman from Syria who was slapped on her face by an embassy staffer in Beirut.

Last week a man called Atallah AlHassan, from the Palestine Embassy in Beirut and a Fatah affiliate, reportedly slapped the woman on her face as she joined a vigil held outside of the embassy to push for urgent humanitarian assistance. 

UPM urged the Prime Minister to launch a fact-finding committee in order to hold the Palestinian Ambassador in Lebanon and parties involved in the assault to account.

UPM warned that it will escalate protest moves in cases serious responses to the assault would not be made and promised to speak up against the case at legislative elections.

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.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/11584