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Friday, December 2, 2016
Abbas meets with Fatah delegations from Syria, Lebanon

Abbas meets with Fatah delegations from Syria, Lebanon
Dec. 2, 2016 10:32 A.M. (Updated: Dec. 2, 2016 10:41 A.M.)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774233

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday met with
Fatah members from Lebanon and Syria during Fatah’s 7th conference in
Ramallah.

The Syrian delegation informed Abbas of the difficult circumstances faced by
Palestinian refugees in Syria, as an estimated 450,000 of the 560,000
registered Palestinian refugees in Syria remain inside the country.

According to UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for providing services to some
five million Palestinian refugees, two-thirds of Palestinian refugees are
displaced internally in Syria, and at least 95 percent are in need of
sustained humanitarian assistance.

Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees are trapped in active conflict
zones, particularly those in Yarmouk and Khan Eshieh camps in Damascus, and
Muzeirib and Jillin in Deraa, making it difficult to provide any
humanitarian aid to the residents amid protracted government sieges.

Meanwhile, at least 42,000 Palestinians have fled to Lebanon and more than
17,000 have reached Jordan, becoming refugees for a second time since they
were first displaced from their villages in historic Palestine during the
establishment of Israel in 1948.

Abbas highlighted that the Palestinian people living in Palestine -- what is
now the occupied West Bank and Gaza -- and Fatah members in Syria would
offer “everything they can” to lessen the suffering of Palestinian refugees
in Syria.

Abbas also met with Fatah members from Lebanon during the conference, who
informed Abbas of the situation for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, saying
that they were “doing their best” to improve their lives and lessen their
suffering.

According to UNRWA, Palestinians in Lebanon have the highest percentage of
their population living in abject poverty from among the other countries the
organization serves.

Facing discriminatory employment policies, Palestinians in Lebanon are
restricted from working in over 20 professions or claiming the same rights
as other non-citizens in Lebanon, while all the refugee camps suffer from
overcrowding, poor housing conditions, and a lack of infrastructure.


The population of the refugee camps has ballooned since 2011 as Palestinians
have fled from the violence in Syria to camps in Lebanon, placing even more
pressure on the economic and infrastructural problems in the refugee camps.

Last month, Lebanese authorities sparked international outcry when
officials, reportedly with support from Palestinian factions, began to
construct a “security wall” -- reminiscent of the Israeli separation wall
that cuts through the occupied West Bank -- around the Ain al-Hilweh
Palestinian refugee camp in order to enforce calm after recent
confrontations between Palestinians in the camp and the Lebanese army.

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