Non-ID Palestinian Refugees

"Like water, like air" is a documentary I directed about the "Bidoun" ("without" in Arabic) or "NON-ID" palestinan refugees in Lebanon. We count more than 3000 families who are not registered to UNRWA due to the lack of evidence of being palestinians. Each family has its own story. They came to Lebanon without papers due to war condition, their papers are outdated and could not be updated or some employers burnt their papers in order to abuse them... All the non-ID are in a very delicate situation now and need some political attention. Their lives are a continuous fall into misery because neither the Lebanese government nor any international authority recognize them. If the Lebanese police catchs a non-ID Palestinian because he has no paper to present, they would put him in prison for 3 months. Then, because of the conflict with Israel, the Lebanese authorities cannot send him back to Palestine so they release him again and leave him inside Lebanese territories where he fears to be caught again. This film presented four families cases to lawyers and deputees in order to show their cases, what would help D.R.C. (Danish Refugees Center) improve their legal situation.
However, the Lebanese government created one year later a comittee to survey those families and help them live better as non-ID palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

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