Published : 23-03-2016
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Syrian uprising, the Palestinian Return Centre in London, in cooperation with the Scottish National Party’s friends of Palestine Committee, have organized a seminar in the British House of Commons about the Palestinians of Syria issue.
The seminar has been hosted and chaired by the MP Tommy Sheppard, member of Parliament and the SNP, and attended by seven other MPs including the Baroness Jenny Tonge.
During the seminar, Cathryn Ramsay from Amnesty International presented part of the agency’s report about violations committed against Palestinian women in Lebanon.
While Anne Irfan from Medical Aid for Palestine said that Palestinian refugees are suffering in both the countries hosting them and the international agencies that do not treat them equally with their Syrian counterparts.
The Polish human rights activist Magda Qandil said the conditions inside the Palestinian camps of Syria are still deteriorated because of the ongoing war, adding that there is sort of neglect by the UNRWA which dropped the Al-Yarmouk camp from the besieged areas list despite not lifting the siege.
Sameh Habib, head of Media and PR in the PRC stressed the need for improving living circumstances of Palestinian refugees in the hosting countries, point to the importance of European Countries to provide support for them.
Habib assured that the Israeli occupation is responsible for the Palestinians’ suffer, indicated that the solution is to let them return back to their houses and villages they were forced to leave upon the 1948 war.
It is noteworthy that this seminar was held in conjunction with another event in the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva on the sideline of the 31 regular session of Human Rights Council, where the PRC has presented a verbal statement on the same issue as well.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Syrian uprising, the Palestinian Return Centre in London, in cooperation with the Scottish National Party’s friends of Palestine Committee, have organized a seminar in the British House of Commons about the Palestinians of Syria issue.
The seminar has been hosted and chaired by the MP Tommy Sheppard, member of Parliament and the SNP, and attended by seven other MPs including the Baroness Jenny Tonge.
During the seminar, Cathryn Ramsay from Amnesty International presented part of the agency’s report about violations committed against Palestinian women in Lebanon.
While Anne Irfan from Medical Aid for Palestine said that Palestinian refugees are suffering in both the countries hosting them and the international agencies that do not treat them equally with their Syrian counterparts.
The Polish human rights activist Magda Qandil said the conditions inside the Palestinian camps of Syria are still deteriorated because of the ongoing war, adding that there is sort of neglect by the UNRWA which dropped the Al-Yarmouk camp from the besieged areas list despite not lifting the siege.
Sameh Habib, head of Media and PR in the PRC stressed the need for improving living circumstances of Palestinian refugees in the hosting countries, point to the importance of European Countries to provide support for them.
Habib assured that the Israeli occupation is responsible for the Palestinians’ suffer, indicated that the solution is to let them return back to their houses and villages they were forced to leave upon the 1948 war.
It is noteworthy that this seminar was held in conjunction with another event in the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva on the sideline of the 31 regular session of Human Rights Council, where the PRC has presented a verbal statement on the same issue as well.
