Some Activists warned the Palestinian Syrian refugees to be careful on all Ein Al Helwa entrances and not going out but for the extreme necessity fearing to be arrested by the Lebanese General Security. The activists mentioned that the campaign arrest against the Palestinians of Syria is still continuous till today and became on the entire security checkpoint in Lebanon. Warns came after the Lebanese security arrested a number of the Palestinian refugees under the pretext of the expired residencies. It is noted that the Lebanese security seizes the ID of anyone who want to renew his residency and they delay the procedures to grant them the residencies.
For its side, Hamas called through Yasser Al Ali, the head of the Refugees Affairs officer in Lebanon, the Lebanese authorities to release the 14 Palestinian Syrian refugees that were arrested by the Lebanese Security checkpoint on the entrance of Ein Al Helwa from the side of AL Hesba in charge of not having a residency to stay in Lebanon. Al Ali mentioned that those procedures add more burdens on the Palestinian refugees which increase the pressure on the camp which is expected to explode in any moment and the arrest will impact the camp negatively.
Yaser Al Ali appealed the Lebanese government to put an end to this problem through an official decision that considers the Palestinians of Syria in Lebanon as refugees that don’t need to issue residencies in a country that they are not tourists or visitors but they came escaping from a war area and all the war convictions are applied on them.
AL Ali insured that Hamas is following the situation of the detained people and contacts all the concerned parties to work to release them as soon as possible.