Published : 07-09-2018
Dozens of displaced Palestinian families from Syria in Lebanon rallied outside of UNRWA offices in Lebanon, demanding legal protection for Palestinian refugees from Syria and denouncing the US decision to cut off aid to the refugee agency.
The rally-goers railed against the US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to suspend all cash aids to UNRWA, a move they said would aggravate the calamitous situation of the Palestinians from Syria, who have already been gripped with abject living conditions.
“Aid-cut is a launch-off step toward the implementation of the US-Israel backed ‘deal of the century’ which aims at wiping out Palestinians’ inalienable rights, liquidate the refugee cause, and whitewash the crimes committed against the Palestinian people since 1948”, a refugee told an AGPS correspondent.
The protesters voiced their firm rebuff of the underway schemes of ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and displacement perpetrated against the Palestinian people nationwide and oversees.
“UNRWA is a legitimate body vouched for by the UN since 1949”, another refugee said. “The agency’s operations can only be halted through an official decision by the UN.”
The refugees stressed the need to grant them the right to legal protection and finding a permanent solution to their tragic state of affairs.
Dozens of displaced Palestinian families from Syria in Lebanon rallied outside of UNRWA offices in Lebanon, demanding legal protection for Palestinian refugees from Syria and denouncing the US decision to cut off aid to the refugee agency.
The rally-goers railed against the US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to suspend all cash aids to UNRWA, a move they said would aggravate the calamitous situation of the Palestinians from Syria, who have already been gripped with abject living conditions.
“Aid-cut is a launch-off step toward the implementation of the US-Israel backed ‘deal of the century’ which aims at wiping out Palestinians’ inalienable rights, liquidate the refugee cause, and whitewash the crimes committed against the Palestinian people since 1948”, a refugee told an AGPS correspondent.
The protesters voiced their firm rebuff of the underway schemes of ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and displacement perpetrated against the Palestinian people nationwide and oversees.
“UNRWA is a legitimate body vouched for by the UN since 1949”, another refugee said. “The agency’s operations can only be halted through an official decision by the UN.”
The refugees stressed the need to grant them the right to legal protection and finding a permanent solution to their tragic state of affairs.
