BEIRUT, July 2 (NNN-NNA) – Palestinian refugees in Lebanon demonstrated yesterday, against the U.S. Middle East peace plan, known as the “Deal of the Century,” online newspaper, Elnashra, reported.
“This deal aims to eliminate the Palestinian cause and prevent Palestinians from returning to their homeland,” the refugees said, during protests in Beirut and south and north of Lebanon.
They assured that Palestinians will remain united, to face the annexation of the West Bank by Israel, said Elnashra.
The Palestinian refugees also urged the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to increase their allowances, to enable them to pay for shelter and food in addition to settling their legal conditions in the country.
UNRWA faced severe financial challenges in 2019, with a deficit valued at 50 million U.S. dollars, which will be added to this year’s deficit, despite the increase in support by donor countries in Nov and Dec, 2019.
UNRWA provides aid, mostly in the form of education, health care, food security and other essentials, to Palestinians registered as refugees, in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
A study, which Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee released in 2017, showed that, the total population of registered Palestinians in Lebanon stands at 174,422.– NNN-NNA
