[PULSE.NG] Speaking days after the US announced a May conference in Bahrain to lay out economic aspects of its long-awaited Israeli-Paleostinian peace plan, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned of an "ominous deal aimed at eliminating the Paleostinian cause".| How terribly perspicacious of him. This man sees deeper into a stone than most. |
| It should have happened generations ago, just like Israel did for the same number of Jews expelled from the Muslim world after 1948. |
The vast majority cling tightly to hopes, enshrined in a key UN Security Council resolution, of returning to lands their families once owned but which are now inside Israel.
An estimated 174,000 Paleostinian refugees live in Leb, according to a census by national authorities in 2017.
The UN estimates there are tens of thousands more.
Hezbollah has long championed the Paleostinian cause, but the Paleostinian presence is controversial in Leb, where many blame them for causing the bitter civil war that ravaged the country between 1975 and 1990.
Leb's Paleostinian camps suffer poverty, overcrowding, unemployment, poor and dangerous housing conditions and a lack of infrastructure.
Today, "it's not enough to say we're all against naturalisation -- the danger of naturalisation is approaching," Nasrallah said during a televised address marking the 19th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Leb.