Published : 19-06-2022
AGPS has documented the death of 4,116 Palestinian refugees, including 493 women and girls, in Syria's war as the country's fragile stateless minority struggles to survive in the deadly eleven-year conflict.
Yarmouk Camp topped the list with 1,490 casualties.
Scores of Palestinian refugees have also been left wounded, including dozens who have undergone limb amputation or eye loss.
Over 80% percent of the victims are civilians, including more than 250 Palestinian children. The preliminary cause of death was regime bombing followed by sniper fire and death under torture by the regime.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed in the Syrian war, mostly by the regime and its powerful allies, while millions more have been displaced both inside and outside of Syria.
Syria is home to 12 Palestinian refugee camps, three of them unofficial, according to the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
Before the deadly conflict began in 2011 there were around 560,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria, descendants of those who were expelled or fled during the establishment of Israel in 1948 in the events of the Nakba.
Since fighting began, more than 85,000 Palestinians have fled Syria to Europe while tens of thousands more have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
AGPS has documented the death of 4,116 Palestinian refugees, including 493 women and girls, in Syria's war as the country's fragile stateless minority struggles to survive in the deadly eleven-year conflict.
Yarmouk Camp topped the list with 1,490 casualties.
Scores of Palestinian refugees have also been left wounded, including dozens who have undergone limb amputation or eye loss.
Over 80% percent of the victims are civilians, including more than 250 Palestinian children. The preliminary cause of death was regime bombing followed by sniper fire and death under torture by the regime.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed in the Syrian war, mostly by the regime and its powerful allies, while millions more have been displaced both inside and outside of Syria.
Syria is home to 12 Palestinian refugee camps, three of them unofficial, according to the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
Before the deadly conflict began in 2011 there were around 560,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria, descendants of those who were expelled or fled during the establishment of Israel in 1948 in the events of the Nakba.
Since fighting began, more than 85,000 Palestinians have fled Syria to Europe while tens of thousands more have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
