Palestinians threatened of displacement in Iraq head to Tahrir Square soon

Shafaq News / Human Rights Commission announced on Wednesday that hundreds of threatened Palestinian families intend to head to Tahrir Square in the center of the capital, Baghdad, to protest the conditions they are going through.

A Commission member, Ali Al-Bayati said in a statement today that "after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cut the rental costs to them, 300 Palestinian families in Baghdad, the majority of whom are the elderly, children and widows, are at risk of displacement in Iraq."

He added, "There is an intention to go to Tahrir Square to search for solutions with the people of the country who have been demanding their rights for four months."

Press sources said that UNHCR recently decided to stop paying rental fees to Palestinian prisoners in Baghdad

It should be noted that the number of Palestinians in Iraq before 2003 was 40 thousand, after that they had to leave Iraq in the form of groups and individual cases, where their number decreased to 3500.