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Hundreds of residents of Sidon’s Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp protested in the streets, as the United States was set to inaugurate its controversial Jerusalem embassy later in the day.

The embassy opening is seen as a symbolic gesture denoting U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Thousands of Palestinian refugees took part in a Hamas-sponsored event in Sidon marking that 100 days had passed since U.S. President Donald Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The widely scorned decision to recognize occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy to the contested city has become a “weak point” of U.S. foreign policy, Hamas’ political leader in Lebanon Ahmad Abd al-Hadi told a crowd of people attending the rally.

Lebanese-Palestinian activist Manal Kortam chose a symbolic campaign name for a symbolic candidacy to Lebanon's parliamentary elections set to take place on May 6.

As a Palestinian refugee born and raised in Lebanon, she is unable to legally apply as a candidate, so instead she chose to highlight the lack of rights for Palestinians, women and other marginalised communities with the "We Exist" campaign.   

Hundreds of Palestinian students, alongside UNRWA officials, took part in an event Monday urging vital funding for the agency ahead of a Rome donor conference slated for March 15.

Students of the UNRWA-funded Birzeit and Beit Jala schools in the Mount Lebanon town of Sibline danced Palestinian-style dabkeh and flew paper kites bearing UNRWA’s “Dignity is Priceless” slogan, in the latest public bid for international funding for the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency.