Published : 22-12-2022
Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria in Lebanon have rallied outside of the main Beirut office of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to urge the Agency to increase cash grants and enhance its services.
Members of the Committee of Palestinians of Syria in Shatilla Camp handed over a memorandum to UNRWA director in Lebanon Muneer Menah calling on the agency to disburse winter grants to all displaced Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, increase shelter grants to 100 USD and food grants to 50.
The refugees also urged the agency to hand them over student transportation allowances and deliver cash grants every month rather than every two months in order to enable them to pay their house rents and purchase food and medicines for their children.
They further called on UNRWA’s protection department to coordinate with the Lebanese General Security Office in order to issue/renew visas and identity documents for displaced Palestinians from Syria and cover 100% of hospitalization fees.
As Lebanon sinks further into crisis, there seems to be a growing consensus that it will take years, and billions of dollars, for the country to recover from a multitude of shocks.
Palestinian refugees have been most affected by the crisis. At the time of writing, fears of mass homelessness among the Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon run rampant.
There is a significant increase in rent prices as opposed to meager salaries and great greed by landlords.
A large number of tenants have been forced to vacate their homes because they are unable to pay rents after the increase in prices, which led to great displacement during the unparalleled economic crisis that the country is going through.
Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria in Lebanon have rallied outside of the main Beirut office of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to urge the Agency to increase cash grants and enhance its services.
Members of the Committee of Palestinians of Syria in Shatilla Camp handed over a memorandum to UNRWA director in Lebanon Muneer Menah calling on the agency to disburse winter grants to all displaced Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, increase shelter grants to 100 USD and food grants to 50.
The refugees also urged the agency to hand them over student transportation allowances and deliver cash grants every month rather than every two months in order to enable them to pay their house rents and purchase food and medicines for their children.
They further called on UNRWA’s protection department to coordinate with the Lebanese General Security Office in order to issue/renew visas and identity documents for displaced Palestinians from Syria and cover 100% of hospitalization fees.
As Lebanon sinks further into crisis, there seems to be a growing consensus that it will take years, and billions of dollars, for the country to recover from a multitude of shocks.
Palestinian refugees have been most affected by the crisis. At the time of writing, fears of mass homelessness among the Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon run rampant.
There is a significant increase in rent prices as opposed to meager salaries and great greed by landlords.
A large number of tenants have been forced to vacate their homes because they are unable to pay rents after the increase in prices, which led to great displacement during the unparalleled economic crisis that the country is going through.
