REPORT: Amnesty International slams Lebanon for allegedly denying entry to Palestinians refugees fleeing Syria

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01-07-2014 | 09:23
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REPORT: Amnesty International slams Lebanon for allegedly denying entry to Palestinians refugees fleeing Syria
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REPORT: Amnesty International slams Lebanon for allegedly denying entry to Palestinians refugees fleeing Syria
Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a report that Lebanon is acting in "a blatantly discriminatory" manner by denying access to Palestinians fleeing Syria.

The watchdog added that Lebanon has imposed increasingly heavy entry requirements at the border with Syria and that there was evidence it was attempting to prevent Palestinian refugees from entering via Beirut airport.

Lebanon is hosting more than one million refugees from Syria, which equals about a quarter of its population.

Amnesty acknowledged that hosting the refugees puts Lebanon under "immense burden" and criticized the International community for failing to provide further support.

It added however that there was "no justification" for the different treatment of Palestinians coming from Syria, who also represent a small number of the total population that has fled the conflict in Syria.

Lebanon's government has denied there is any decision preventing the entry of Palestinians from Syria.

Amnesty said it received no response from the government to its inquiries about incidences of denied entry.

There were approximately 500,000 Palestinians in Syria before the conflict, with refugee camps including Yarmouk in Damascus badly affected by the uprising.

The Syrian uprising started in March 2011 as a largely peaceful protest against President Bachar Assad's rule.

It turned into an armed uprising after some opposition supporters picked up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

It gradually became a civil war, in which more than 160,000 people have been killed, according to activists, and nearly a third of Syria's population of 23 million has been displaced.


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