Published : 25-04-2022
The psychological effects of the prolonged Syrian conflict have been devastating, especially for vulnerable Palestine refugee children.
The impact of price inflation has been greatest in places like Syria. Food and non-food prices have soared by 40%. Purchasing new clothes has become a sign of luxury for Palestinian children sheltered in the war-ravaged country.
After more than a decade of conflict, Palestinian and Syrian families are now facing the country’s worst ever economic crisis. Rent, food, medicine, fuel, and clothes are now out of reach for many families. Humanitarian needs across the country have never been higher.
As the economic situation continues to deteriorate, its impact is acutely felt by everyone, not only the poorest or displaced families. The majority of families say they are eating less, cutting meals and going into debt to meet their basic needs.
The eleven-year conflict in Syria has left its mark on the entire country, but for Palestine refugee children, already one of the most vulnerable groups in society before the conflict, have been amongst the worst affected. Many Palestine refugee children have lost their homes and in some cases a family member as well. Many have experienced displacement, trauma, intense fear and disruption to their normal lives.
Child labour and child marriage have substantially increased since the conflict began. The warfare has also had traumatic fallouts on Palestinian refugee children in and outside the Syrian territories.
Speaking with AGPS, a number of Palestinian refugee children said they have been deprived of childhood joy as they can neither buy snacks at school nor ice-cream from local shops. In the best of cases, a Palestinian child in Syria receives a pocket money of no more than 500 Syrian Pounds in a country where a small chips box costs over 1,000 pounds and a sandwich at school costs more than 1,200.
Post-traumatic stress disorders, mental psychosis, sleeplessness and nightmares, eating disorders, and intense fear have all been among the symptoms with which Palestinian children have been diagnosed.
AGPS renews its calls to the international community, human rights institutions, UNICEF, UNRWA, and all concerned bodies to work on protecting Palestinian children in embattled Syria and provide those who fled the war-torn country with physical and moral protection in the host countries.
AGPS has recorded the death of 252 Palestinian refugee children in war-torn Syria. Hundreds more have gone orphaned after they lost one or both of their parents in the deadly warfare.
The psychological effects of the prolonged Syrian conflict have been devastating, especially for vulnerable Palestine refugee children.
The impact of price inflation has been greatest in places like Syria. Food and non-food prices have soared by 40%. Purchasing new clothes has become a sign of luxury for Palestinian children sheltered in the war-ravaged country.
After more than a decade of conflict, Palestinian and Syrian families are now facing the country’s worst ever economic crisis. Rent, food, medicine, fuel, and clothes are now out of reach for many families. Humanitarian needs across the country have never been higher.
As the economic situation continues to deteriorate, its impact is acutely felt by everyone, not only the poorest or displaced families. The majority of families say they are eating less, cutting meals and going into debt to meet their basic needs.
The eleven-year conflict in Syria has left its mark on the entire country, but for Palestine refugee children, already one of the most vulnerable groups in society before the conflict, have been amongst the worst affected. Many Palestine refugee children have lost their homes and in some cases a family member as well. Many have experienced displacement, trauma, intense fear and disruption to their normal lives.
Child labour and child marriage have substantially increased since the conflict began. The warfare has also had traumatic fallouts on Palestinian refugee children in and outside the Syrian territories.
Speaking with AGPS, a number of Palestinian refugee children said they have been deprived of childhood joy as they can neither buy snacks at school nor ice-cream from local shops. In the best of cases, a Palestinian child in Syria receives a pocket money of no more than 500 Syrian Pounds in a country where a small chips box costs over 1,000 pounds and a sandwich at school costs more than 1,200.
Post-traumatic stress disorders, mental psychosis, sleeplessness and nightmares, eating disorders, and intense fear have all been among the symptoms with which Palestinian children have been diagnosed.
AGPS renews its calls to the international community, human rights institutions, UNICEF, UNRWA, and all concerned bodies to work on protecting Palestinian children in embattled Syria and provide those who fled the war-torn country with physical and moral protection in the host countries.
AGPS has recorded the death of 252 Palestinian refugee children in war-torn Syria. Hundreds more have gone orphaned after they lost one or both of their parents in the deadly warfare.
