The Lebanese Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, announced last Thursday that the decision on the "combating of foreign workers" should be lifted, calling on the minister of labour to hold a press conference and announce it.
"We live under the Minister of Labour’s decision’s repercussions on the Palestinian workers, the situation was almost exploding and the army is exhausted in the streets," said Berri in response to an intervention by a member of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, the MP, Ali Ammar, in a session in the House of Representatives.
For his part, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, expressed that he will ask the Minister of Labour to lift the decision on the combating of foreign workers to the Council of Ministers in order to take the appropriate decision.
The Lebanese minister's decision provoked a wave of Palestinian anger in the refugee camps, in Lebanon, which lead to a general strike in the camps, in response to calls by the Palestinian Follow-up Committee in Lebanon. Some activists considered the Lebanese government’s decision as a "racist" step that is in violation of the legal procedures, which is essentially bureaucratic, and used in the narrow political context.
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