In Lebanon, where in the 66th anniversary of establishing UNRWA; a discussion panel was held in Sidon’s municipality hall in Lebanon by “Refugees Affairs Office in Hamas Movement” on Thursday 10 December 2015 to discuss the UNRWA’s aid cuts.
The Palestinian researcher “Ibrahim Al-Ali” in his titled paper “The effects and implications of UNRWA’s aid cuts on the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon” stressed on the living, economic and humanitarian situations refugees are living in Lebanon and referred to its decisions to reduce its services in the five fields of operations under the pretext of budget deficit especially in Syria and Lebanon and its negative effects on refugees lives. These effects led to aggravation of humanitarian and living conditions of the refugees and raise the threat of social diseases such as begging and extremism.
It is noteworthy that the discussion panel, in which Palestinian factions representatives had participated in addition to specialists and researchers, included two sessions, the first one handled the title “The political performance in the face of UNRWA’s policies as seen by the alliance of Palestinian factions”, while the second session highlighted the title “The effect of UNRWA’s aid cuts on the reality of Palestinian refugees”.