Published : 30-10-2018
Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, Talal AlNaji, said nearly 200,000 Palestinian refugees left Syria since the outburst of the deadly warfare in 2011.
Speaking at a press conference held in Moscow on Friday, October 26, AlNaji said that prior to the war in Syria, 550,000 Palestinian refugees used to take shelter in the country.
According to AlNaji, thousands of Palestinians fled their refugee camps in Syria as a result of the offensives and crackdowns perpetrated by such terror groups as ISIS and AlNusra, particularly, but not exclusively, in Yarmouk Camp, the largest in Syria.
According to AGPS data, nearly 150,000 Palestinian refugees fled war-stricken Syria, among them 30,000 who have sought refuge in Lebanon; 17,000 in Jordan; 6,000 in Egypt; 8,000 in Turkey; and 1,000 in the besieged Gaza Strip.
UNRWA data estimates that 120,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria have fled the deadly war.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, Talal AlNaji, said nearly 200,000 Palestinian refugees left Syria since the outburst of the deadly warfare in 2011.
Speaking at a press conference held in Moscow on Friday, October 26, AlNaji said that prior to the war in Syria, 550,000 Palestinian refugees used to take shelter in the country.
According to AlNaji, thousands of Palestinians fled their refugee camps in Syria as a result of the offensives and crackdowns perpetrated by such terror groups as ISIS and AlNusra, particularly, but not exclusively, in Yarmouk Camp, the largest in Syria.
According to AGPS data, nearly 150,000 Palestinian refugees fled war-stricken Syria, among them 30,000 who have sought refuge in Lebanon; 17,000 in Jordan; 6,000 in Egypt; 8,000 in Turkey; and 1,000 in the besieged Gaza Strip.
UNRWA data estimates that 120,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria have fled the deadly war.
