Published : 20-06-2021
In a report released on the International Refugees’ Day, marked annually on June 20, AGPS said thousands of Palestinian refugees in/from Syria have been displaced from their houses and refugee camps.
Heavy shelling on the displacement camps of Yarmouk, Khan Eshieh, AlSabina, AlHusainiya, Hindarat, and Deraa, among other camps in Syria, forced hundreds of Palestinian families to flee to other destinations.
UN data indicates that the protracted conflict has devastated human security and left 91 per cent of the 438,000 Palestine refugees estimated to remain in the country in absolute poverty and 40 per cent displaced.
In the absence of a durable political settlement, intense hostilities and violence resulting in deaths and injuries, internal displacement, loss of livelihoods, decreases in the provision of public services, and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure have disrupted the lives of civilians and forced thousands to become internally displaced.
Torn from the nourishment of home and warmth of family, Palestinians have been scattered across such destinations as Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Europe.
The situation has gone downhill after most of the world’s countries opted for a closed-door immigration policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee community from Syria, leaving thousands at the threat of forced deportation.
Hundreds have embarked on life-threatening journeys onboard the death-boats to Europe or to neighboring countries, searching for safe shelters and sources of incomes.
Those who have returned to the Syrian territories have been subjected to arbitrary crackdowns and forced conscription with pro-government battalions.
UN data indicates that as many as 120,000 Palestine refugees have fled war-stricken Syria since 2011, including 28,000 to Lebanon.
The Syrian conflict has impacted Palestine refugees inside and outside the Syrian territories. There used to be 560’000 countrywide, mainly in Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia, Damascus and Deraa.
AGPS calls on the international community and UN bodies to provide urgent assistance to the Palestinian refugee communities in/from Syria, urge the Syrian regime to release prisoners and reveal the condition and whereabouts of forcibly-disappeared refugees, and to push for the reconstruction of destroyed refugee camps.
In a report released on the International Refugees’ Day, marked annually on June 20, AGPS said thousands of Palestinian refugees in/from Syria have been displaced from their houses and refugee camps.
Heavy shelling on the displacement camps of Yarmouk, Khan Eshieh, AlSabina, AlHusainiya, Hindarat, and Deraa, among other camps in Syria, forced hundreds of Palestinian families to flee to other destinations.
UN data indicates that the protracted conflict has devastated human security and left 91 per cent of the 438,000 Palestine refugees estimated to remain in the country in absolute poverty and 40 per cent displaced.
In the absence of a durable political settlement, intense hostilities and violence resulting in deaths and injuries, internal displacement, loss of livelihoods, decreases in the provision of public services, and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure have disrupted the lives of civilians and forced thousands to become internally displaced.
Torn from the nourishment of home and warmth of family, Palestinians have been scattered across such destinations as Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Europe.
The situation has gone downhill after most of the world’s countries opted for a closed-door immigration policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee community from Syria, leaving thousands at the threat of forced deportation.
Hundreds have embarked on life-threatening journeys onboard the death-boats to Europe or to neighboring countries, searching for safe shelters and sources of incomes.
Those who have returned to the Syrian territories have been subjected to arbitrary crackdowns and forced conscription with pro-government battalions.
UN data indicates that as many as 120,000 Palestine refugees have fled war-stricken Syria since 2011, including 28,000 to Lebanon.
The Syrian conflict has impacted Palestine refugees inside and outside the Syrian territories. There used to be 560’000 countrywide, mainly in Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia, Damascus and Deraa.
AGPS calls on the international community and UN bodies to provide urgent assistance to the Palestinian refugee communities in/from Syria, urge the Syrian regime to release prisoners and reveal the condition and whereabouts of forcibly-disappeared refugees, and to push for the reconstruction of destroyed refugee camps.
