Palestinian Refugee Project

Ms. Hayat Balha Abu Shmeis, met by chance with Haji Salim Muhammad Salim Abu Junaid, from the town of Al-Khayriyah, Jaffa, where he was born in 1936. During this meeting, this witness to the Palestinian Nakba spoke heartily about his memories in his village, and when he was displaced from it. He talks about the British army, before its withdrawal in 1948 and how they gave their weapons to the Jewish gangs such as the Haganana, the Irgun Stern, and trained them in 1947. Haj Salim described the street of Jamal Pasha as it was beautiful and one of the most beautiful streets in the Middle East at that time. It had Eucalyptus trees lining both sides of the street, and in the middle, there was an island of water.  He added that he was working for Yasser Arafat as a translator to explain to foreigners about the Palestinian Catastrophe /Nakba. Since the promise of the Balfour, who promised to the Jews that he would make a government for them in Palestine. He recounts in his spe...

  We the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon suffer from deprivation, and do not have the right to oppose this situation simply because we are Palestinians and we are considered second-class citizens.     Well, we are accustomed to this Lebanese approach against us, but where is UNRWA then? The ones that are supposed to provide “human development and humanitarian services encompass primary and vocational education, primary health care, relief and social services, infrastructure and camp improvement, microfinance, and emergency response, including in situations of armed conflict”. The Lebanese economy has no glimmer of hope that it will recover in the near future. There are some Lebanese merchants who monopolize some of the most important necessities of life, such as infant formula, food supplies, and fuel. Even medicines were not spared their contempt and corruption. Their untouchable hands and actions should be stopped as soon as possible. The @PRefugeeProject wa...