TYRE (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Israeli displacement orders are chasing Palestinians wherever they are, keeping them within the cycle of the ongoing catastrophe, displacement, and deprivation of any stability even if they reside outside their occupied homeland.
Al-Rashidiya Palestinian refugee camp was among the 24 places including towns, villages, and camps in southern Lebanon, that received evacuation orders from the criminal Israeli occupation army in preparation for its bombing, similar to what has been happening during the ongoing war of genocide in Gaza.
Forced displacement
The residents of the camp, estimated at 25,000 people, were extremely shocked to receive the forced displacement orders, especially since most of the residents are of the poor and needy, which exacerbates their suffering as they have to experience a very difficult displacement process.
The official of the Popular Committee in the Al-Rashidiya camp, Ibrahim Abu Al-Dahab, affirmed that the Israeli occupation army issued orders to the people to leave the camp, which led to a large wave of displacement.
Abu Al-Dahab added, in a press statement, that the camp houses about 25,000 Palestinian refugees, noting that about 15,000 people are still stuck in the camp, due to their inability to move out due to insufficient shelter centers, as the available centers are completely saturated.
He indicated that the people are living in a state of panic, as they fear that the buildings and residential neighborhoods will be targeted, as what happened in the southern suburb of Beirut.
Unbearable displacement
A resident of the camp, called Muhammad Abu Naji, said that the people in the camp are unable to go out because they cannot afford transportation costs, especially that the available shelter centers are already overcrowded.
He told the PIC correspondent that the camp residents are currently confused, not knowing what to do, as they are only left with one choice: moving out on foot.
He explained that they have to temporarily respond to the displacement orders over concerns about the children, women, and the elderly, hoping that they will all return to the camp first then to Palestine in triumph.
Naji praised the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran, stressing the need to escalate resistance in the face of the “Zionist entity”, to force it to stop the genocide and criminality in Gaza and Lebanon.
Waiting for the salvation
Al-Rashidiya is one of 12 refugee camps in Lebanon, awaiting the moment of salvation and return to their homeland Palestine, and is located to the south of the Lebanese city of Tyre on the Mediterranean coast, and is the closest Palestinian camp to 1948 occupied Palestine.
It is the largest of three refugee camps in the city of Tyre, with an area of 267 dunums. The two others are Al-Buss and Al-Burj Al-Shamali.
