The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon refused to enroll the Palestinian Syrian students to the official exams in the pretext of not having a regular stays in Lebanon.
This comes amid news about that the Lebanese General Security refused to renew the residency permits for many Palestinians who fled from Syria to Lebanon, where they were informed that they must leave Lebanon.
For their part, the Palestinian Syrian refugees in Lebanon renewed their demanding to the Lebanese official authorities, the Palestinian Embassy in Lebanon, the PLO, and the Palestinian factions to work to solve the problem faced by their children in each academic year.
It is worth mentioning that the Palestinians of Syria in Lebanon suffer from many legal and living problems, such as residencies, high cost of living, and the lack of employment opportunities.
Moreover, they are treated according to volatile policies especially by the public security, sometimes they issue a decision to renew residency for two or three months and when the Palestinian refugees apply for it, it may takes one or two months, as the refugees receive it they find that the period granted to them is nearing to end.
It is noteworthy that the number of Palestinian refugees from Syria amounted to about 51.4 thousand refugees, 45% of them children, distributed in several areas of Lebanon, especially the originally overcrowded camps.