A popular meeting held Tuesday evening in Ein al-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon slammed the isolation wall being erected around the shelter.
The conveners harked back to the long-standing Palestinian-Lebanese fraternity ties.
A statement released following the meeting confirmed that no incidents of security breaches have occurred at security checkpoints over the past few years.
“In view of that we consider the construction of the ‘racist’ wall an unwarranted move” the statement read.
The statement held the Palestinian and Lebanese political factions responsible for the move urging them to immediately take action.
The conveners further appealed to the Lebanese human rights institutions to urgently step in and speak up against such an oppressive measure.
A couple of days earlier the first blocks of a “security” wall were erected around the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon this week as a plan to build security cordons and watchtowers around Ein al-Hilweh came into effect.
For thousands living in the overcrowded camp of Ein al-Hilweh located southeast of the port city of Sidon life will only get from bad to worse due to the fence.
Angry Palestinian refugees dubbed the fence “the wall of shame” and compared it to Israeli apartheid walls in the occupied Palestinian territories.
However observers compared the wall to an open-air prison inside which Palestinian refugees will be confined.
Ein al-Hilweh camp covering an area of one square kilometer is home to over 80000 Palestinian refugees who were recently joined by thousands of displaced Palestinians fleeing warfare in beleaguered Syria.
