Palestinian teen who cried before Merkel gets residency permit
 

https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0...b3a30487d9.jpgA Palestinian teen threatened with deportation who burst into tears during a televised debate with German Chancellor Angela Merkel has got a residency permit for "humanitarian reasons," a statement said Friday. In the encounter last month, 14-year-old Reem told Merkel in fluent German that she and her family, who arrived in the **rth German city of Rostock from a Lebanese refugee camp four years ago, faced possible deportation. Minutes later, Reem began to weep and the chancellor stroked her head and tried to comfort her in a way critics said appeared awkward and cold, and which led to a storm of protest on social media.




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