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Palestinian-Syrian refugees hold sit-in at embassy
Published in Daily News Egypt on 22 - 04 - 2013

An open sit-in in front of the Palestinian embassy in Cairo is scheduled to take place on Tuesday morning, organised by Palestinian refugees from Syria. According to the event's page on Facebook the protesters demand the Palestinian embassy make it a priority to work with Egyptian authorities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to solve the problems faced by Palestinian refugees in Egypt.
Their demands include the recognition of their situation and equality with Syrian refugees. “The Palestinian embassy in Cairo should fulfil its duties towards the refugees in term of providing them with medical aid, food and financial aid," a statement on the page said.
“An emergency action committee should be created at the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo to work on solving the problems faced by the Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Cairo," the statement continued. “This committee should be headed by the ambassador of the state of Palestine, and be composed of staff from the embassy and a group from the Palestinian-Syrian refugees."
The protesters are also demanding the embassy return the complete list of names of Palestinian-Syrian refugees currently in Egypt, adding that the embassy has “kept and obscured this list that was initially created by the refugees themselves".
“Official delegates from the Palestinian embassy should be available to receive the Palestinian-Syrian refugees upon their arrival at Cairo airport," the statement read, adding that delegates should be available around the clock and their phone numbers should be circulated among the refugees.
If their demands are not met, the statement said, then the Palestinian ambassador in Cairo should be dismissed and replaced by an ambassador “that is capable of resolving the demands outlined above".
According to Hanine Hassan, the coordinator of the Palestinian-Syrian Refugee Committee, there are roughly 10,000 Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Egypt. “We have roughly 2,000 families here in Egypt," she said. “Many of them are elderly people who fled from Palestine [in 1948 and 1967] to Syria and have now had to flee again to Egypt."
Hassan said there are more refugees coming into Egypt every day. “The Egyptian government refuses to recognise [Palestinian coming from Syrian] as refugees and this is the core of the problem," she said. “The government recognises Syrians as refugees, giving them the right to protection and to live in Egypt until the conflict is resolved."
Having refugee status also allows refugees to register with the UNHCR. The Palestinians do not have this right. “We have an embassy that is supposed to advise them and follow up with the government but it has completely failed to protect us over the past seven months," Hassan said.


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