In an academic chapter on family dispersion among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria published in 2021, geographer Dr. Kamel Doraï wrote that:
[...] The refugee status of Palestinians is linked to their country of residence. When they leave their country of residence, they do not fall under the mandate of the UNHCR and can only access limited humanitarian assistance provided by the UNRWA. Conflict tends to transform Palestinian refugees into asylum-seekers, and most of the time they are seen as illegal migrants in their country of temporary residence. As they are stateless, they cannot even seek the protection of their country of origin. The singularity of the Palestinian experience is related to the non-resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, to their stateless status, and their exclusion from the 1951 conventional asylum system.”
(Source: Kamel Doraï, “From Family Dispersion to Asylum-Seeking: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria”, 2021, p. 57)
In its series of country reports for 2021, the US Department of State wrote about Lebanon in 2022:
“Access to Asylum: The law does not provide for the granting of asylum or refugee status. Nonetheless, the country hosted an estimated 1.5 million refugees, the vast majority of them Syrian.”
(Source: US Department of State (USDOS) “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Lebanon”, Section 2. Respect for Civil Liberties, March 2022, p. 24)