The Lebanese authorities on Sunday released the Palestinian girl Manal Abu Seyam aged 15 after they detained her for days.
Over recent days Abu Seyam’s detention stirred seething anger among the Palestinian refugee community.
The girl was arrested at a hospital to which she had been admitted following a horrific traffic accident in Rehab region in Lebanon.
The Lebanese authorities claimed the girl entered Lebanon with her family via illegal routes and that she cannot be treated as a Syrian refugee as she was carrying Palestinian-Syrian identity documents.
Palestinian refugees from Syria have been subjected to a precarious legal status in Lebanon where they are often treated as foreigners rather than legitimate asylum-seekers.
Hundreds of Palestinians formerly sheltered in Syria have fled the war-torn country in the hunt for a safe shelter to take provisional refuge in.
