Hujjat al-Islam Na’im Qasim:‎

The permanent settlement of Palestinian refugees outside Palestine has become a reality

Rasa – A member of the Central Council of Hezbollah has emphasized that the danger of ‎Palestinian refugees remaining in Lebanon permanently hasn’t been exaggerated but rather it ‎has now become a reality.‎

News ID: 439586

Date: 17 September 2018 - 23:19

RNA – Speaking during the sixth night of Muharram al-Haram in the southern Lebanese village of ‎Sila’a, Hujjat al-Islam Na’im Qasim, the deputy secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah ‎‎Islamic Resistance movement, said some Arab countries presented the worst and most ‎heinous picture of “Arabism” and a despicable image of the Islam ummah and this is while ‎the Islamic Resistance has presented the best images of the victories, dignities and glories of ‎the Islam ummah.‎

The revered Lebanese cleric that the danger of Palestinian refugees residing outside of their ‎homeland permanently hasn’t been exaggerated but rather this has now become a reality. ‎‎“The President of the United States, Donald Trump, unanimously with Arab countries, have ‎decided to allow these refugees to reside [outside of Palestine] permanently,” he added.‎

Hujjat al-Islam Qasim continued, “Israeli greed in the region has no limits. This regime is ‎greedy for Lebanon’s gas, oil, water, and soil in the Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shuba and ‎besides this, Israeli fighters violate Lebanese airspace every day and we continue to be in a ‎state of war with the Israeli regime.”‎

Tweeting on September 11th, Yisrael Katz, Israel’s Minister of Intelligence, welcomed ‎Trump’s plan to resettle Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq and claimed, ‎‎“The refugee problem was perpetuated by Arab and Palestinian leaders as a lever to bring ‎about the unjust demand for ‘the right of return’ an attempt to bring about the destruction of ‎Israel‎ and it is good that it disappears from the world.”‎

On Wednesday, Katz hailed Trump’s decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization’s ‎office in Washington.‎

‎“This decision joins the decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the ‎decision to stop funding the [United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees ‎in the Near East] UNRWA, which is an organisation that perpetuates the refugees’ pretend ‎right of return,” Katz said.‎

“All these steps reach the roots of the conflict and tell Palestinian Authority Chairman ‎Mahmoud Abbas that he cannot continue his double-talk,” he added.‎

Riyadh al-Maliki, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, stated that ‎no country is willing to permanently settle the Palestinian refugees and stressed that any ‎program would fail in this regard.‎

Speaking to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), he said, “The permanent ‎resettlement plan proposed by the United States won’t be successful because it isn’t an ‎impartial decision and conflicts with international legal decisions. The host countries of the ‎Palestinian refugees, including Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, reject any thinking on ‎settlement.”‎

Lebanon is currently home to roughly 590,000 Palestinian refugees (out of some five million ‎worldwide), according to official Lebanese figures.‎

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