A disparity between the results of Lebanon’s first official census of Palestinian refugees, which registered just 174,422 individuals in the country, and the 469,331 refugees registered with UNRWA has highlighted a long-standing misconception about the U.N. agency’s registration system. “There has been a wrong interpretation of UNRWA’s registration figures [for a long time],” Jalal al-Husseini, associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near East in Amman, told The Daily Star.
