Published : 20-06-2022
June 20 marks the World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe and people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
UN data indicates that more than 6.4 million Palestinian refugees are registered in the records of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), sheltered in displacement camps across the Agency’s five fields of operations (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, West Bank including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip).
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in/from Syria have been dispersed by the conflict and torn from the nourishment of home and warmth of family.
Palestinian refugees have been scattered across Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Libya, Sudan, Thailand, Malaysia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, France, Brazil, Chile, and Canada, among other destinations. Hundreds have become internally displaced across the Syrian territories.
The situation has gone downhill as most of the world’s governments have opted for a closed-door immigration policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee community from Syria.
Most of the Gulf countries and a number of Arab governments have also outlawed granting visas to Palestinians with Syrian travel documents. Palestinian refugees from Syria are treated as foreigners and often denied access into embassies to obtain visas.
In the absence of a durable political settlement, intense hostilities and violence resulting in deaths and injuries, internal displacement, loss of livelihoods, decreases in the provision of public services, and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure have disrupted the lives of civilians and forced thousands to become internally displaced.
Nearly 200,000 Palestinian refugees left Syria since the outburst of the deadly warfare in 2011. Prior to the war in Syria, 550,000 Palestinian refugees used to take shelter in the country.
At the same time, 1,488 Palestinian families have been sheltered in northern Syria displacement camps, where they have been struggling for survival after they were forced out of Yarmouk and southern Damascus towns.
June 20 marks the World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe and people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
UN data indicates that more than 6.4 million Palestinian refugees are registered in the records of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), sheltered in displacement camps across the Agency’s five fields of operations (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, West Bank including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip).
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in/from Syria have been dispersed by the conflict and torn from the nourishment of home and warmth of family.
Palestinian refugees have been scattered across Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Libya, Sudan, Thailand, Malaysia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, France, Brazil, Chile, and Canada, among other destinations. Hundreds have become internally displaced across the Syrian territories.
The situation has gone downhill as most of the world’s governments have opted for a closed-door immigration policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee community from Syria.
Most of the Gulf countries and a number of Arab governments have also outlawed granting visas to Palestinians with Syrian travel documents. Palestinian refugees from Syria are treated as foreigners and often denied access into embassies to obtain visas.
In the absence of a durable political settlement, intense hostilities and violence resulting in deaths and injuries, internal displacement, loss of livelihoods, decreases in the provision of public services, and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure have disrupted the lives of civilians and forced thousands to become internally displaced.
Nearly 200,000 Palestinian refugees left Syria since the outburst of the deadly warfare in 2011. Prior to the war in Syria, 550,000 Palestinian refugees used to take shelter in the country.
At the same time, 1,488 Palestinian families have been sheltered in northern Syria displacement camps, where they have been struggling for survival after they were forced out of Yarmouk and southern Damascus towns.
