Published : 31-01-2022
Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said Palestinian refugees in Syria continue to struggle to get one meal a day.
This comes in a meeting held in Geneva with representatives of UN Member-States.
Lazzarini said the refugees are living in a state of despair due to protracted displacement. 90% of them live below the poverty line.
The UNRWA chief added that a cash grant of 75,000 Syrian pounds will be delivered to the most vulnerable families while the other registered families will receive 55,000.
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. 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 and to push for the reconstruction of destroyed refugee camps.
Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said Palestinian refugees in Syria continue to struggle to get one meal a day.
This comes in a meeting held in Geneva with representatives of UN Member-States.
Lazzarini said the refugees are living in a state of despair due to protracted displacement. 90% of them live below the poverty line.
The UNRWA chief added that a cash grant of 75,000 Syrian pounds will be delivered to the most vulnerable families while the other registered families will receive 55,000.
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. 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 and to push for the reconstruction of destroyed refugee camps.
