Published : 03-09-2021
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.
Meanwhile, the Syrian warfare has severely affected Palestinian refugee communities in/from the war-torn country (PRS).
PRS have been grappling with an ambivalent legal status and denied their basic rights, including the right to health care and access to the local labor market.
Several job announcements have excluded Palestinian refugees and persons with an equivalent status. This has been the case in the contest opened up by the Aleppo University on August 26, 2020 and the contest launched by Syrian bakeries on August 12, 2020 along with other jobs opened by the Syrian Central Bank, the Health Ministry, and other government-run bodies.
Palestinian refugees have also faced legal hurdles and complicated red tape as regards their right to property ownership.
A number of Palestinian refugee children aged below 15 have also been barred from obtaining national cards used by the Syrian government to ration bread and a wider range of subsidized goods, namely fuel, rice, tea, and sugar.
After ten years of conflict, Palestine refugees continue to be one of the most vulnerable groups in Syria with immense humanitarian needs.
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.
Meanwhile, the Syrian warfare has severely affected Palestinian refugee communities in/from the war-torn country (PRS).
PRS have been grappling with an ambivalent legal status and denied their basic rights, including the right to health care and access to the local labor market.
Several job announcements have excluded Palestinian refugees and persons with an equivalent status. This has been the case in the contest opened up by the Aleppo University on August 26, 2020 and the contest launched by Syrian bakeries on August 12, 2020 along with other jobs opened by the Syrian Central Bank, the Health Ministry, and other government-run bodies.
Palestinian refugees have also faced legal hurdles and complicated red tape as regards their right to property ownership.
A number of Palestinian refugee children aged below 15 have also been barred from obtaining national cards used by the Syrian government to ration bread and a wider range of subsidized goods, namely fuel, rice, tea, and sugar.
After ten years of conflict, Palestine refugees continue to be one of the most vulnerable groups in Syria with immense humanitarian needs.
