In Lebanon, Mr. Yasser Ali, the Hamas Refugees Affairs Office Director in Lebanon, demanded the Lebanese government to grant the Palestinians of Syria the residencies and to get rid of the settlement Phobia that lives in the minds of the elite Lebanese politicians which prevent any positive movement that could ease situation. Mr. Yasser Ali considered the decision of the Lebanese government to stop granting the residencies to the Palestinians of Syria as a discrimination decision that threatens dozens of Palestinian Syrian students due to the refusal of the Ministry of Education to give them permissions to apply for the ninth grade exam and also for the school exams.
Mr. Yasser Ali also described the decision of depriving the students from doing their exams as a discriminative attitude thatcontrary to all the principles and conventions of human rights signed by the Lebanese state. He also noted that the causes of the problem go back to the official treatment of the Palestinian refugees coming from Syria, where the authorities considered them as tourists and not refugees as Syrian refugees and thus lost all his rights.
It is noteworthy that the Lebanese government is treating the Palestinians of Syria, who are estimated with about 51 thousand refugees, similarly as displaced people, which prevents them of having their rights in Lebanon. The Lebanese government and especially the Lebanese General Security experiencing volatile policies towards the Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria, sometimes it issues a decision to renew residencies for a period of two or three months “, the Palestinian refugees ask for residency and it may continue for one or two months, ashe receives it he find that the period granted to him are nearing completion, in addition, the Lebanese government do not allow the displaced Palestinian refugees to work on its territory.