Published : 07-03-2018
In Lebanon, AGPS participated with its media representative “Fayez Abu Eid” in a workshop organized by the Committee of the Displaced on Monday 5th of March 2018 under the title, “The Suffering of the Palestinians of Syria between UNRWA and the Legal Situation... Reality... Difficulties... Hopes,” in the headquarters of the municipality of Sidon in southern Lebanon.
Media representative, Abu Eid, addressed in his paper presented under the title, “Palestinians of Syria… Where to? An Unknown Future,” the situation of the Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Lebanon on the living, economic, legal and medical levels, noting that the Palestinian-Syrian refugees are still complaining from the unstable conditions resulting from the fragility of the legal situation in Lebanon. The Lebanese government continues to treat Palestinians as visitors who must leave after the end of their stay.
Abu Eid noted that the number of Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Lebanon declined significantly during the past few years, because of the legal decisions taken by the Lebanese government in an undeclared manner that prevent their entry into its territory, and as a result of the deterioration of their living conditions, and their inability to carry the burden of life in Lebanon, in addition to the widespread of unemployment, and the reduction of assistance provided by UNRWA or the relief institutions and associations. He added that these reasons caused them to return to Syria or to choose to risk taking on the sea on death boat, to find a safer and more dignitious life.
In the conclusion of his statement, Fayez Abu Eid referred to the future of the Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon, amid the absence of official Palestinian, Arab and international movement, as vague and subject to one of the following scenarios: voluntary repatriation to Syria, as some families have done recently, or refoulement, by preventing Palestinian refugees from Syria to enter Lebanon under any circumstances, which is what the Lebanese government has done "in a soft and coarse way," or mass deportation under the umbrella of the law, or the isolation of refugees in border camps like the Jordanian and Turkish authorities did. The final scenario is resorting to camps in the event of a failure to obtain legal residence or to settle the situation of Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon and a heightened sense of threat. Abu Eid stressed that in this case, the humanitarian and living conditions of the Palestinian refugees will double, whether they have been residents since the first asylum or the arrivals, and that this will have negative repercussions on both parties, because these camps are already suffering from misery and curse.
In Lebanon, AGPS participated with its media representative “Fayez Abu Eid” in a workshop organized by the Committee of the Displaced on Monday 5th of March 2018 under the title, “The Suffering of the Palestinians of Syria between UNRWA and the Legal Situation... Reality... Difficulties... Hopes,” in the headquarters of the municipality of Sidon in southern Lebanon.
Media representative, Abu Eid, addressed in his paper presented under the title, “Palestinians of Syria… Where to? An Unknown Future,” the situation of the Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Lebanon on the living, economic, legal and medical levels, noting that the Palestinian-Syrian refugees are still complaining from the unstable conditions resulting from the fragility of the legal situation in Lebanon. The Lebanese government continues to treat Palestinians as visitors who must leave after the end of their stay.
Abu Eid noted that the number of Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Lebanon declined significantly during the past few years, because of the legal decisions taken by the Lebanese government in an undeclared manner that prevent their entry into its territory, and as a result of the deterioration of their living conditions, and their inability to carry the burden of life in Lebanon, in addition to the widespread of unemployment, and the reduction of assistance provided by UNRWA or the relief institutions and associations. He added that these reasons caused them to return to Syria or to choose to risk taking on the sea on death boat, to find a safer and more dignitious life.
In the conclusion of his statement, Fayez Abu Eid referred to the future of the Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon, amid the absence of official Palestinian, Arab and international movement, as vague and subject to one of the following scenarios: voluntary repatriation to Syria, as some families have done recently, or refoulement, by preventing Palestinian refugees from Syria to enter Lebanon under any circumstances, which is what the Lebanese government has done "in a soft and coarse way," or mass deportation under the umbrella of the law, or the isolation of refugees in border camps like the Jordanian and Turkish authorities did. The final scenario is resorting to camps in the event of a failure to obtain legal residence or to settle the situation of Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon and a heightened sense of threat. Abu Eid stressed that in this case, the humanitarian and living conditions of the Palestinian refugees will double, whether they have been residents since the first asylum or the arrivals, and that this will have negative repercussions on both parties, because these camps are already suffering from misery and curse.
