Published : 01-09-2021
AGPS continues to call on the Syrian security forces and their Russian allies to lift the tough cordon imposed on the Palestinian refugee camp of Deraa along with other areas in the Syrian southern city of Deraa for over 70 days running.
AGPA also demands that the air strikes and attacks launched on the area, and which claimed the lives of civilians, including Palestinian refugees, be immediately ended.
The international community should urgently step in to ensure that the inhumane blockade is immediately lifted and civilians regain access to food and medicines along with other life-saving items.
As a host country for Palestinian refugees, Syria should live up to its legal and moral responsibility and assist the refugees pending their return to their Israeli-occupied homeland.
At the same time, serious and urgent measures should be taken by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab League, among other regional and international parties, in order to ensure Palestinian refugees and other civilians in Syria are kept safe at times of armed shootouts and deadly fighting.
The United Nations bodies, most notably UNRWA and the UNHRC, should also pressurize the Syrian regime to end the blockade and ensure civilians’ access to humanitarian aid supplies.
On June 25, the regime forces asked the residents and former opposition forces to lay down all light weapons and allow them to search their homes. However, the Daraa Central Committee, the main reconciliation center in the area, noted that they were only supposed to hand in heavy weapons as part of the Russian-brokered agreement signed in July 2018. The regime then started imposing a blockade on some 40,000 civilians living in the area.
Palestinian refugees have expressed concerns over a new wave of forced military conscription and arbitrary manhunts in the area.
AGPS continues to call on the Syrian security forces and their Russian allies to lift the tough cordon imposed on the Palestinian refugee camp of Deraa along with other areas in the Syrian southern city of Deraa for over 70 days running.
AGPA also demands that the air strikes and attacks launched on the area, and which claimed the lives of civilians, including Palestinian refugees, be immediately ended.
The international community should urgently step in to ensure that the inhumane blockade is immediately lifted and civilians regain access to food and medicines along with other life-saving items.
As a host country for Palestinian refugees, Syria should live up to its legal and moral responsibility and assist the refugees pending their return to their Israeli-occupied homeland.
At the same time, serious and urgent measures should be taken by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab League, among other regional and international parties, in order to ensure Palestinian refugees and other civilians in Syria are kept safe at times of armed shootouts and deadly fighting.
The United Nations bodies, most notably UNRWA and the UNHRC, should also pressurize the Syrian regime to end the blockade and ensure civilians’ access to humanitarian aid supplies.
On June 25, the regime forces asked the residents and former opposition forces to lay down all light weapons and allow them to search their homes. However, the Daraa Central Committee, the main reconciliation center in the area, noted that they were only supposed to hand in heavy weapons as part of the Russian-brokered agreement signed in July 2018. The regime then started imposing a blockade on some 40,000 civilians living in the area.
Palestinian refugees have expressed concerns over a new wave of forced military conscription and arbitrary manhunts in the area.
