Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria hold sit-in outside UNRWA office in Beirut
Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria have held a sit-in outside the headquarters of the UNRWA agency in the Shatila camp in Beirut, demanding urgent relief and services, reports the Lebanese National News Agency.
The protest was called by the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, Palestinian-Syrian activists in Beirut and the FS Group, with representatives of Palestinian factions and civil institutions taking part.
Rami Mansour, speaking for the committee, criticised UNRWA’s policies of reducing services and called on the agency to set up an urgent relief programme to ease the crises facing the displaced.
A statement from Palestinian-Syrian activists described the difficult conditions facing displaced Palestinians from Syria and called for services and financial grants.
Sheikh Muhyiddin Sukkar, speaking for the Association of Palestinian Scholars in Lebanon, said the displaced people from Syria were a broad and important segment of the Palestinian people and demanded legal protection and services for them. He denounced UNRWA’s service cuts and stressed the need for a unified Palestinian position against them.
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