Lebanese Palestinians Are Rising Up against the Right of Return
They want the right to work freely in Lebanon, but Beirut and Ramallah don’t want them to have it.
July 19, 2019
Lebanese Palestinians Are Rising Up against the Right of Return
They want the right to work freely in Lebanon, but Beirut and Ramallah don’t want them to have it.
This week, unnoticed by the Western media, Palestinian demonstrations in Lebanon turned into violent confrontations with police. Precipitating the riots was Beirut’s crackdown on companies employing foreign laborers—mostly Syrian refugees and Palestinians—without work permits, which businesses must pay a fee to obtain. Now the protesters are demanding that Palestinians, the overwhelming majority of whom were born in the country, and are banned outright from dozens of professions, have the same rights to employment as “native” Lebanese.
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