Published : 23-02-2022
The protracted consequences of the Syria crisis, coupled with the socio-economic deterioration in Syria and the impacts of COVID-19, continue to pose grave humanitarian challenges to Palestine refugees.
Despite the overall reduction in hostilities in 2022, insecurity continues to affect the Palestine refugee community in Syria. According to UNRWA estimates, around 40 per cent of the Palestine refugee population in Syria remain in protracted displacement.
The risk posed to civilians by Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) in areas that witnessed active conflict in the past, including some Palestine refugee camps, remains high.
The deteriorating Syrian economy and rising inflation is giving rise to a real threat of hunger. A drastic loss of purchasing power has increased fears amongst the population, including Palestine refugees, about their ability to meet their basic needs, in particular food.
According to the World Food Programme (WFP), 12.4 million Syrians are now food insecure, an increase of 4.5 million over the previous year and the highest number ever recorded.1 An UNRWA survey in May 2021 found that 82 per cent of the refugees interviewed now live on less than US$ 1.9 a day and that 48 per cent of total household expenditure was spent on food, indicating severe distress within families.
A decade of crisis has undermined the social fabric that held refugee communities and the wider Syrian society together and pre-existing family and community-level support for women and girls is no longer guaranteed.
According to Agency records, female Palestine refugees account for 60 per cent of the most vulnerable Palestine refugee caseload in Syria.
PRS are being pushed into ever more negative coping mechanisms to survive, including missing meals, child marriages, child labour, debt and unsustainable borrowing practices. Families struggle to provide for the additional needs of the elderly and family members with disabilities.
The protracted consequences of the Syria crisis, coupled with the socio-economic deterioration in Syria and the impacts of COVID-19, continue to pose grave humanitarian challenges to Palestine refugees.
Despite the overall reduction in hostilities in 2022, insecurity continues to affect the Palestine refugee community in Syria. According to UNRWA estimates, around 40 per cent of the Palestine refugee population in Syria remain in protracted displacement.
The risk posed to civilians by Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) in areas that witnessed active conflict in the past, including some Palestine refugee camps, remains high.
The deteriorating Syrian economy and rising inflation is giving rise to a real threat of hunger. A drastic loss of purchasing power has increased fears amongst the population, including Palestine refugees, about their ability to meet their basic needs, in particular food.
According to the World Food Programme (WFP), 12.4 million Syrians are now food insecure, an increase of 4.5 million over the previous year and the highest number ever recorded.1 An UNRWA survey in May 2021 found that 82 per cent of the refugees interviewed now live on less than US$ 1.9 a day and that 48 per cent of total household expenditure was spent on food, indicating severe distress within families.
A decade of crisis has undermined the social fabric that held refugee communities and the wider Syrian society together and pre-existing family and community-level support for women and girls is no longer guaranteed.
According to Agency records, female Palestine refugees account for 60 per cent of the most vulnerable Palestine refugee caseload in Syria.
PRS are being pushed into ever more negative coping mechanisms to survive, including missing meals, child marriages, child labour, debt and unsustainable borrowing practices. Families struggle to provide for the additional needs of the elderly and family members with disabilities.
