In the context of an escalation of protests against the decisions of UNRWA that stated reducing their services provided to Palestinian refugees, hundreds of residents from Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian camps who displaced in Lebanon carried out sit-ins in Burj Al Shamali, Rashedeia, and Bas camps at Tire city southern Lebanon.
In addition, they implemented sit-ins at Al Bidwan and Nahr Al Barid Camps in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, as well as refugee’ compounds s in Lebanon’s Bekaa.
The sit-ins were implemented in front of regions managers’ offices in UNRWA, which denounced the recent decisions taken by UNRWA of reducing its services in the five where it works, as they demanded United Nations to put pressure on the donor countries in order to meet financial obligations to UNRWA.
The Palestinian civil and popular committees and Palestinians of Syria delivered a protest memorandum to the UNRWA regions managers at the end of the sit-in demanding to reconsider its decision, which will have negative repercussions on the living, humanitarian, social, medical, and educational conditions of the Palestinian refugees in general and the displaced Palestinians of Syria in Lebanon in particular.