{"id":389880,"date":"2018-12-20T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-there-a-plot-to-depopulate-palestinian-refugee-camps-in-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:10:54","slug":"is-there-a-plot-to-depopulate-palestinian-refugee-camps-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-there-a-plot-to-depopulate-palestinian-refugee-camps-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Plot to Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ahmed.s.osman.7\/videos\/1938835166162988\/\">eerie video<\/a> composed of a recorded audio prayer and a photo of one \u2018Hajj Jamal Ghalaini\u2019 occasionally pops up on Facebook. The voice is that of an alleged religious sheikh, praying for the well-being of the man in the photo for saving the Palestinian refugee youth of Lebanon, by facilitating their departure to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The video would have been just another odd social media post, were it not for the fact that Ghalaini is a real person, with his name recurring in the ongoing tragedy of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Many have credited their successful \u2018escape\u2019 from Lebanon by citing this person, who, kindly, they say, has made the journey to Europe far cheaper than all other human smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>We know little about Ghalaini, except that he seems to operate brazenly, without much legal repercussions from Lebanese authorities or the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which is, supposedly, the caretaker of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Something strange is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the US Administration of Donald Trump began to promote its \u2018Deal of the Century\u2019, Palestinian refugees \u2013 a fundamental issue in the Palestinian national struggle which has been relegated years ago \u2013 have, once more, taken\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180921-the-resettling-of-palestinian-refugees-is-the-core-of-the-trump-deal\/\">center-stage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump\u2019s plan is yet to be fully\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180927-trump-deal-of-the-century-to-be-announced-within-2-or-3-months\/\">revealed<\/a>, early indications suggest it drives to sideline Jerusalem entirely from any future agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/is-there-a-plot-to-depopulate-palestinian-refugee-camps-in-lebanon\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0eerie video composed of a recorded audio prayer and a photo of one \u2018Hajj Jamal Ghalaini\u2019 occasionally pops up on Facebook. The voice is that of an alleged religious sheikh, praying for the well-being of the man in the photo for saving the Palestinian refugee youth of Lebanon, by facilitating their departure to Europe. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}