Now it is already a week, since a group of recognized refugees from Choucha Camp started a hunger strike in front of the UNHCR offices in Tunis. People are now getting very weak, today there has been two women hospitalized. In total there have been ten persons now that needed medical attention. Until now the UNHCR has not offered any meeting since the hunger strike started, but they have demanded specific information about the number of protesters. The refugees are still waiting for their demand – resettlement to a country with functioning asylum protection – to be met.
The protesters were today joined by a delegation of palestinian refugees from Choucha. The 22 Palestinians in Choucha Camp also find themselves without being allowed to the Resettlement Programme. Five of them will join the hunger strike from today on, including one underaged boy.
