Published : 27-02-2022
A Palestinian refugee was found hanged at his family house in Khan Esheih Camp, in Rif Dimashq, after he was stripped of his mobile phone over addiction concerns.
Khalil Malek AlHaj, an 8th grade student, committed suicide. His father is incarcerated in Syrian prisons since 2014.
The war has resulted in increasing rates of juvenile delinquency, unemployment, and psychological disorders.
Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have also increasingly emerged in displacement camps set up for Palestinian refugees in Syria
Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.
Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
Upon more than one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
A Palestinian refugee was found hanged at his family house in Khan Esheih Camp, in Rif Dimashq, after he was stripped of his mobile phone over addiction concerns.
Khalil Malek AlHaj, an 8th grade student, committed suicide. His father is incarcerated in Syrian prisons since 2014.
The war has resulted in increasing rates of juvenile delinquency, unemployment, and psychological disorders.
Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have also increasingly emerged in displacement camps set up for Palestinian refugees in Syria
Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.
Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
Upon more than one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
