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New UNRWA Office Opened Up in Khan Eshieh Camp

Published : 26-06-2020

New UNRWA Office Opened Up in Khan Eshieh Camp

An AGPS reporter said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) opened an office in the camp so as to facilitate registration for Palestinian refugees in the area.

The new office has been established at UNRWA’s Social Development Center in Khan Eshieh. A worker has been tasked with taking down the refugees’ demands and thus sparing them an exhausting trip to AlMezeeh or Halabouni areas in Damascus.

Refugees will be able to register their newborns and receive aid cards along with death/birth certificates at the new office, which will be operating weekly on Tuesdays.

Palestinian families taking refuge in Khan Eshieh camp have been struggling with squalid humanitarian conditions inflicted by the nine-year long warfare.

According to UN data, Khan Eshieh camp lies beside the ancient ruins of Khan Eshieh, 27km south-west of Damascus. The Khan historically served as an overnight shelter for trade caravans on the road between Damascus and the southwest, and in 1948, it provided shelter for the first refugees from Palestine. The camp was established in 1949 on an area of 0.69 square kilometers with refugees originally from the northern part of Palestine.

Before the conflict in Syria, the camp was home to more than 20,000 Palestine refugees. In 2012, the farms and fields surrounding the camp became active battlegrounds in which heavy weapons were deployed, often indiscriminately. The population more than halved to 9,000.

Some of the camp's buildings and infrastructure were severely affected including some UNRWA installations; two UNRWA schools and the community centre were almost razed to the ground. In 2016, UNRWA was able to re-access Khan Esheih and the Agency was able to rehabilitate some of its installations. Residents have also slowly started to return, with the camp now accommodating 12,000 people.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10290

An AGPS reporter said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) opened an office in the camp so as to facilitate registration for Palestinian refugees in the area.

The new office has been established at UNRWA’s Social Development Center in Khan Eshieh. A worker has been tasked with taking down the refugees’ demands and thus sparing them an exhausting trip to AlMezeeh or Halabouni areas in Damascus.

Refugees will be able to register their newborns and receive aid cards along with death/birth certificates at the new office, which will be operating weekly on Tuesdays.

Palestinian families taking refuge in Khan Eshieh camp have been struggling with squalid humanitarian conditions inflicted by the nine-year long warfare.

According to UN data, Khan Eshieh camp lies beside the ancient ruins of Khan Eshieh, 27km south-west of Damascus. The Khan historically served as an overnight shelter for trade caravans on the road between Damascus and the southwest, and in 1948, it provided shelter for the first refugees from Palestine. The camp was established in 1949 on an area of 0.69 square kilometers with refugees originally from the northern part of Palestine.

Before the conflict in Syria, the camp was home to more than 20,000 Palestine refugees. In 2012, the farms and fields surrounding the camp became active battlegrounds in which heavy weapons were deployed, often indiscriminately. The population more than halved to 9,000.

Some of the camp's buildings and infrastructure were severely affected including some UNRWA installations; two UNRWA schools and the community centre were almost razed to the ground. In 2016, UNRWA was able to re-access Khan Esheih and the Agency was able to rehabilitate some of its installations. Residents have also slowly started to return, with the camp now accommodating 12,000 people.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10290