Published : 12-06-2020
The Follow-Up Committee of Palestinian refugees who returned to Gaza from war-torn Syria has urged the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to the returnees who have been facing abject poverty in the Israeli-blockaded enclave.
In a letter to UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, the committee said Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) in Gaza continue to face a dire humanitarian condition due to the high rates of unemployment and poverty rocking the besieged enclave.
The committee said the situation has gone downhill due to UNRWA’s suspension of shelter allowances for PRS since June 2018.
The committee slammed UNRWA for failing to take up its allotted mission, saying the refugees will have no other option than to accept UNHCR’s resettlement programs.
It called on the Agency to provide PRS with decent shelters and create labor opportunities in order to help them provide for their impoverished families.
Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been enduring dire living conditions due to the 13-year-long Israeli siege and the devastating upshots of the Israeli onslaughts on the coastal enclave.
Civilians continue to launch cries for help over the high rates of unemployment, lack of financial resources, and movement crackdowns, which they said have made life quite unbearable in Gaza.
The offensives launched by the Israeli military on Gaza have turned the enclave into a hell on earth as most families have lost their sources of incomes, homes, and property.
According to data by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Gaza is one of the world's most densely populated areas, with more than 5,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. The Gaza Strip is smaller than the city of Oslo but is home to three times as many people.
A 2012 UN report predicted the Palestinian enclave would be “unlivable” by 2020 if nothing was done to ease the blockade, but in June 2017 a UN report on living conditions in Gaza stated that all the indicators were going in the wrong direction and that deadline was actually approaching even faster than earlier predicted.
Gaza is described by many Palestinians and humanitarian actors as the world’s largest open-air prison, where nearly 2 million Palestinians live behind a blockade and are refused access to the other occupied Palestinian areas and the rest of the world.
NRC said 7 out of 10 Palestinians in Gaza are registered as refugees, and many of these come from families who were forced to leave their villages in 1948. Many have also been forced to leave their homes due to war, violence, and economic hardship.
The Follow-Up Committee of Palestinian refugees who returned to Gaza from war-torn Syria has urged the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to the returnees who have been facing abject poverty in the Israeli-blockaded enclave.
In a letter to UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, the committee said Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) in Gaza continue to face a dire humanitarian condition due to the high rates of unemployment and poverty rocking the besieged enclave.
The committee said the situation has gone downhill due to UNRWA’s suspension of shelter allowances for PRS since June 2018.
The committee slammed UNRWA for failing to take up its allotted mission, saying the refugees will have no other option than to accept UNHCR’s resettlement programs.
It called on the Agency to provide PRS with decent shelters and create labor opportunities in order to help them provide for their impoverished families.
Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been enduring dire living conditions due to the 13-year-long Israeli siege and the devastating upshots of the Israeli onslaughts on the coastal enclave.
Civilians continue to launch cries for help over the high rates of unemployment, lack of financial resources, and movement crackdowns, which they said have made life quite unbearable in Gaza.
The offensives launched by the Israeli military on Gaza have turned the enclave into a hell on earth as most families have lost their sources of incomes, homes, and property.
According to data by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Gaza is one of the world's most densely populated areas, with more than 5,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. The Gaza Strip is smaller than the city of Oslo but is home to three times as many people.
A 2012 UN report predicted the Palestinian enclave would be “unlivable” by 2020 if nothing was done to ease the blockade, but in June 2017 a UN report on living conditions in Gaza stated that all the indicators were going in the wrong direction and that deadline was actually approaching even faster than earlier predicted.
Gaza is described by many Palestinians and humanitarian actors as the world’s largest open-air prison, where nearly 2 million Palestinians live behind a blockade and are refused access to the other occupied Palestinian areas and the rest of the world.
NRC said 7 out of 10 Palestinians in Gaza are registered as refugees, and many of these come from families who were forced to leave their villages in 1948. Many have also been forced to leave their homes due to war, violence, and economic hardship.
