GENEVA: The UN has announced to suspend services at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon to record a protest against the presence of armed men around its facilities and schools within the area, Arab media reported on Friday.
Deadly clashes took place at the Ain el-Hilweh camp in July after armed men tried to assassinate a leader of a Palestinian political party.
In a statement, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), “The UN agency does not accept actions that breach the neutrality of its installations,”.
🚨 #UNRWA Statement on #EinElHilweh 🚨
All UNRWA services in the camp 📍 will be suspended in protest of continued presence of armed fighters in its facilities.
UNRWA does not tolerate breaches in the inviolability + neutrality of its installations.
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— UNRWA (@UNRWA) August 18, 2023
“The agency repeats its call on armed men to immediately vacate its accommodations, to ensure unimpeded delivery of much-needed help to Palestine Refugees,.”
Over 400,000 Palestine refugees live in Lebanon’s several Palestinian camps, which date back to the 1948 Arabs-Israel war.
Constituted in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, the UN provides public services, including primary healthcare, schools, and humanitarian aid in Jordan, Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon.
