Back to Contents 15.3. What is the situation of stateless unmarried/single Palestinian women without male support? In its Protection Monitoring Report for the 2nd quarter of the year 2022, UNRWA reported that: “Focal points continued to emphasise women and children’s feelings of unsafety, which have remained high. Their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse has been exacerbated by the economic situation, which in some cases was said to have led female family members to stay at home and children to spend more time on the street and/or at places of work. This is particularly critical for female-headed households, in a context where single, divorced or widowed women are particularly vulnerable to all forms of gender-based violence.” (Source: UNRWA, “UNRWA Protection Monitoring Report – Quarter 2 (Q2) 2022”, 26 August 2022, p. 5) Refugee Net, which, according to its website, is a “Palestinian Refugee News Network in Lebanon”, published a testimonies by Palestinian refugee women who live unmarried in Lebanon: “Today, Zahra lives in her sister’s house in Burj al-Barajneh Camp in Beirut, and she does not have any pension or anyone who takes care of her after a long course of struggle, and she has no breadwinner. She says: «I do not regret what I have done in my life, knowing that I did not marry and did not build a family, the country is greater than everything, and for it I did what I did, but it hurts me very much to get here after a long struggle, and I still don’t know why I’m being ignored along with many Palestinian women fighters. We have become like a garment whose owner has outgrown it after a period of time has passed, so it is thrown aside and no one cares about it.» ORIGINAL SOURCE: .‫ وال معيل لها‬،‫ وليس لديها أي راتب تقاعدي أو من يهتم ألمورها الحياتية بعد مسرية طويلة من النضال‬،‫تعيش اليوم زهرة يف بيت أختها يف مخيم برج الرباجنة يف بريوت‬ ‫ لكن يؤملني جدا ً أن أصل إىل‬،‫ وأنا من أجله قمت مبا قمت به‬،‫ والوطن أكرب من كل يشء‬،ً‫ علامً أنني مل أتزوج ومل أبنِ عائلة‬،‫ «أنا لست نادم ًة عىل ما قدّمته يف حيايت‬:‫تقول‬ ،‫ لقد رصنا كالثوب الذي يضيق عىل صاحبه بعد مرور زمن عليه‬.‫ وما زلت أجهل سبب تجاهيل والعديد من النساء الفلسطينيات املناضالت‬،‫هنا بعد مسرية نضال طويلة‬ .»‫ُفرُيمى جانباً وال يعود أحد يكرتث له‬ (Source: Refugee Net: “I live alone with my chickens”... Forgotten Palestinian women activists in the camps of Lebanon, July 1, 2022) Persons with Disabilities (PwD), including but not limited to mental, physical, psychosocial, and intellectual 15.4. Are there statistics recorded on the incidence of stateless Palestinians with disabilities and the form of disability? In its Emergency Appeal Progress Report, UNRWA published statistics for the number of refugee children identified as living with special educational needs or disabilities during the reporting period (1 January to 30 June 2022). “Lebanon: sector-specific interventions: […] During the reporting period, 1,744 refugee children (876 girls, 868 boys) identified with SEN [Special Educational Needs] and disabilities – out of 2,655 children (1,313 girls, 1,342 boys) or 65.69 per cent of the total identified – were referred through the UNRWA Health Programme to complementary (non-education) services provided by external partners to support their learning development. Of this number, 474 (230 girls, 244 boys) were children presenting at least one disability, representing 27 per cent of the overall supported population. This result underachieves against the set target as the resources available, both under this EA and project funding, were not sufficient to cover all identified needs (including psychomotor or psychological therapy and assistive devices, such as batteries for hearing aids) for children with learning difficulties and speech and hearing impairments.” (Source: UNRWA, “Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, 2022 Emergency Appeal Progress Report for the reporting period 1 January – 30 June 2022”, 3 November 2022, p. 29) 15. Particular hardships faced by specific profiles of stateless Palestinians 136