The Association of Displaced Palestinians from Syria to Lebanon has called the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for exceptional assistance to be disbursed to the Palestinians.
The Association has promised the Refugee Relief Agency a “heating allowance” for all Palestinians displaced from Syria to Lebanon, to be able to bypass the winter cold, according to the “Jerusalem Press” website.
In a letter sent to the UNRWA administration in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Saturday, the Association said that “all Palestinian displaced people lack clothing and heating facilities.”
The Association pointed out that such assistance must cover all displaced persons without exception, in its words, in the various places where they are distributed on Lebanese territory.
The Association of Displaced Palestinians from Syria to Lebanon saw its message as an affirmation of the urgent need for such assistance.
The Association’s demands come days after UNRWA announced its intention to distribute fuel oil for heating to Palestinian families.
In a statement, the UN agency announced that such assistance would include Syrian Palestinian families, only in the Lebanese Bekaa region.
Approximately 27,700 Palestinians from Syria are displaced to Lebanon, and UNRWA ranks them among the “most vulnerable”.
The Agency reported that since the beginning of 2022, the poverty rate had exceeded 87 per cent.
Lebanon is suffering from a stifling economic crisis and the collapse of the lira against the dollar, in addition to the collapse of the economic and vital sectors and a comprehensive electricity crisis.
Lebanon is experiencing an unprecedented crisis, with a shortage of fuel, food and other necessary materials as a result of the deterioration of the economic situation and the devaluation of the currency. The World Bank has described this crisis as the worst in a century and a half at the global level.
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