Published : 25-09-2020
Palestinian refugee families who returned to Deraa camp continue to rail against the squalid conditions they have enduring the area.
The residents have sounded distress signals over the absence of health services and life-saving medical kit. Most of the clinics and medical centers in the area have gone out of operation in the warfare.
Most of Daraa’s schools have also been destroyed or put out of operation in the raging warfare as a result of heavy shelling using missiles and barrel bombs. A number of education facilities have been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers. Dozens of Palestinian teaching staff members have been arrested and sent to jail.
The residents continue to urge the Palestine Liberation Organization, UNRWA, and the General Authority for Palestine Refugees to make serious steps in order to reconstruct infrastructure, rehabilitate water, power, and sanitation networks, and restore UNRWA’s health, educational, and relief facilities.
Founded in 1950-1951, Daraa Camp is home to over 650 displaced Palestinian families. As many as 10,500 Palestine refugees used to take shelter in the camp before the conflict in Syria led to large scale destruction and displacement. All UNRWA facilities in the camp have suffered high levels of damage and nearly 90 per cent of the camp residents were displaced.
Activists have attributed the situation to the fallouts of the military operation launched by the Syrian government forces in mid-June 2018 using internationally-prohibited weapons in an attempt to recapture the area. 80% of civilian homes and property were destroyed.
Palestinian refugee families who returned to Deraa camp continue to rail against the squalid conditions they have enduring the area.
The residents have sounded distress signals over the absence of health services and life-saving medical kit. Most of the clinics and medical centers in the area have gone out of operation in the warfare.
Most of Daraa’s schools have also been destroyed or put out of operation in the raging warfare as a result of heavy shelling using missiles and barrel bombs. A number of education facilities have been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers. Dozens of Palestinian teaching staff members have been arrested and sent to jail.
The residents continue to urge the Palestine Liberation Organization, UNRWA, and the General Authority for Palestine Refugees to make serious steps in order to reconstruct infrastructure, rehabilitate water, power, and sanitation networks, and restore UNRWA’s health, educational, and relief facilities.
Founded in 1950-1951, Daraa Camp is home to over 650 displaced Palestinian families. As many as 10,500 Palestine refugees used to take shelter in the camp before the conflict in Syria led to large scale destruction and displacement. All UNRWA facilities in the camp have suffered high levels of damage and nearly 90 per cent of the camp residents were displaced.
Activists have attributed the situation to the fallouts of the military operation launched by the Syrian government forces in mid-June 2018 using internationally-prohibited weapons in an attempt to recapture the area. 80% of civilian homes and property were destroyed.
