Published : 19-10-2020
Palestinian refugees in northern Syria continue to rail against the apathy maintained by the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) regarding their appeals for urgent humanitarian assistance.
Palestinian families who have been displaced from Yarmouk and Khan Eshieh refugee camps along with Rif Dimashq to the northern Syrian provinces of Idlib and Aleppo said they have been shorn of much-needed relief services by the UN Agency.
The displaced families leveled heavy criticism at UNRWA and held the Agency accountable for the squalid humanitarian condition endured by hundreds of women, children, and sick refugees.
Though UNRWA’s mandate includes Palestinian refugees in Syria, UNRWA has rarely provided relief services to the displaced Palestinians in the northern corners of the country on claims that the area is hard to reach.
AGPS continues to urge UNRWA to hand over much-needed relief items, including medicines and foodstuff, to the displaced Palestinians in all of its fields of operations, including northern Syria, and to provide them with the physical and moral protection they quite urgently need at such a critical time.
UNRWA provides assistance to over 438,000 registered Palestinian refugees in Syria. Some 13,500 others remain in hard-to-reach or inaccessible zones in northern Syria.
Palestinian refugees in northern Syria continue to rail against the apathy maintained by the UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) regarding their appeals for urgent humanitarian assistance.
Palestinian families who have been displaced from Yarmouk and Khan Eshieh refugee camps along with Rif Dimashq to the northern Syrian provinces of Idlib and Aleppo said they have been shorn of much-needed relief services by the UN Agency.
The displaced families leveled heavy criticism at UNRWA and held the Agency accountable for the squalid humanitarian condition endured by hundreds of women, children, and sick refugees.
Though UNRWA’s mandate includes Palestinian refugees in Syria, UNRWA has rarely provided relief services to the displaced Palestinians in the northern corners of the country on claims that the area is hard to reach.
AGPS continues to urge UNRWA to hand over much-needed relief items, including medicines and foodstuff, to the displaced Palestinians in all of its fields of operations, including northern Syria, and to provide them with the physical and moral protection they quite urgently need at such a critical time.
UNRWA provides assistance to over 438,000 registered Palestinian refugees in Syria. Some 13,500 others remain in hard-to-reach or inaccessible zones in northern Syria.
