Published : 07-03-2022
AGPS has documented the death of 487 Palestinian women and girls all the way through Syria’s ten-year conflict, according to death toll data for the period from March 2011 until March 8, 2022.
AGPS figures indicate that 243 female refugees died under shelling; 68 died as a result of the blockade and medical neglect in Yarmouk Camp; and 28 others were fatally shot by snipers.
37 female refugees were, meanwhile, killed in blasts; 24 were gunned down; 26 drowned at sea; five female refugees were executed; 34 were tortured to death in Syrian prisons; and 20 others died of other reasons, including murder, assassination, suicide, suffocation, health setbacks, and Israeli bullet fire.
Damascus topped the list with 163 persons, followed by Dimashq (152), Aleppo (20), and Deraa (66).
AGPS also documented the secret detention of 110 Palestinian women and girls in Syria’s government prisons.
AGPS believes the numbers to be far higher as scores of casualties have gone undocumented after the Syrian authorities kept their names secret. Several families have also refused to reveal their relatives’ names over retaliation concerns.
According to affidavits by ex-detainees, Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to harsh psycho-physical torture tactics in Syrian penitentiaries, including electric shocks, heavy beating using iron sticks, and sexual abuse.
Such practices represent flagrant violations of the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict of 1974, Article 5, which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against women and children.
Inherently a taboo misdemeanor in the MENA region, violence against women, be it sexual, physical, or verbal, has remained under-reported among the Palestinian refugee community in Syria, with reasons wavering between fear of retaliation, embarrassment, fear of punishment for those below the age of criminal responsibility, and distrust in law enforcement.
AGPS has documented the death of 487 Palestinian women and girls all the way through Syria’s ten-year conflict, according to death toll data for the period from March 2011 until March 8, 2022.
AGPS figures indicate that 243 female refugees died under shelling; 68 died as a result of the blockade and medical neglect in Yarmouk Camp; and 28 others were fatally shot by snipers.
37 female refugees were, meanwhile, killed in blasts; 24 were gunned down; 26 drowned at sea; five female refugees were executed; 34 were tortured to death in Syrian prisons; and 20 others died of other reasons, including murder, assassination, suicide, suffocation, health setbacks, and Israeli bullet fire.
Damascus topped the list with 163 persons, followed by Dimashq (152), Aleppo (20), and Deraa (66).
AGPS also documented the secret detention of 110 Palestinian women and girls in Syria’s government prisons.
AGPS believes the numbers to be far higher as scores of casualties have gone undocumented after the Syrian authorities kept their names secret. Several families have also refused to reveal their relatives’ names over retaliation concerns.
According to affidavits by ex-detainees, Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to harsh psycho-physical torture tactics in Syrian penitentiaries, including electric shocks, heavy beating using iron sticks, and sexual abuse.
Such practices represent flagrant violations of the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict of 1974, Article 5, which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against women and children.
Inherently a taboo misdemeanor in the MENA region, violence against women, be it sexual, physical, or verbal, has remained under-reported among the Palestinian refugee community in Syria, with reasons wavering between fear of retaliation, embarrassment, fear of punishment for those below the age of criminal responsibility, and distrust in law enforcement.
