The Rehab Reyyad Al Khatib, a 5-year-old girl, from the refugees of Syria was able to enter the Lebanese territories to join her family there after the interference of Mr. Abbas Ibrahim, the General Director of the General Lebanese Security, to put an end to the suffering of the child who was prevented to enter Lebanon according to the closure of the borders for the Palestinians of Syria refugees by the Lebanese authorities.
Rehab was obliged to leave Lebanon earlier to get treatment in Syria because of the high cost of treatment in Lebanon and the carelessness of UNRWA in providing treatment to the Palestinians of Syria in Lebanon that prompted the family to send her daughter to her grandmother to get treatment then she can join her family in Lebanon, at that time the Lebanese authorities were not having that decision of preventing the Palestinian refugees to enter Lebanon.
This comes in light of the intensive efforts of the Palestinian Association for Human Rights “Witness”to let the girl join her family in Lebanon, where a delegation from the Association received the girl Rehab in the Factory Area and delivered her to her father Reyad AlKhatibafter getting the temporary visa with the efforts of Mr. Abbas Ibrahim the Major General in person.
The Palestinian Association for Human Rights “Witness”insured in a statement that the case of Rehab Al Khatib was a blatant example about the suffering of the Palestinian refugees in Syria where they were divided between Lebanon, Syria and other countries. UNRWA doesn’t fulfill its humanitarian duties towards the Palestinian refugees neither on the level of the legal protection or on the level of the humanitarian aids.
The Palestinians of Syria in Lebanon don’t have any legal status that enable them to live easily, the exceptional conditions prompted some of them to leave Lebanon to Europe using illegal ways which expose them to a continuous danger. It is worthy to mention that the number of the Palestinians of Syria who resorted to Lebanon due to the war in Syria reached 51.000 refugees according to previous statistics for UNRWA.