Published : 29-11-2022
Fires have rocked displacement camps northwest of Syria, in the 155th such incident since the start of the year, according to the Syria Response Coordinators team.
Each year, seasonal fires put the life of displaced Palestinian and Syrian families in northern Syria displacement camps at risk, affecting the quality of life and air.
Since the start of this year, wild fires rocked agricultural and forest land in northern Syria, while displaced persons’ tents near these fires are random and not equipped with fire extinguishers, posing a real danger to residents’ lives.
At the same time, desperate for warmth, displaced Palestinian and Syrian families taking refuge in under-equipped camps and substandard facilities have been burning their clothes and plastic materials to stave off winter cold after they failed to afford firewood and fuel supplies.
Most of northern Syria’s 1,277 displacement camps, according to Civil Defense statistics, including 366 random camps housing about 1 million displaced persons, including Palestinian refugees, are overcrowded.
Their residents are forced to use primitive materials to secure a thermal source for cooking, such as burning plastic and nylon, given the soaring prices of fuels and their deteriorating living conditions.
AGPS continues to urge the Palestine Liberation Organization, UNRWA, and the Syrian authorities to live up to their responsibilities and take urgent action to save Palestinians scattered across the embattled Syrian territories and provide them with the physical, legal, and moral protection quite needed at such a critical stage.
Fires have rocked displacement camps northwest of Syria, in the 155th such incident since the start of the year, according to the Syria Response Coordinators team.
Each year, seasonal fires put the life of displaced Palestinian and Syrian families in northern Syria displacement camps at risk, affecting the quality of life and air.
Since the start of this year, wild fires rocked agricultural and forest land in northern Syria, while displaced persons’ tents near these fires are random and not equipped with fire extinguishers, posing a real danger to residents’ lives.
At the same time, desperate for warmth, displaced Palestinian and Syrian families taking refuge in under-equipped camps and substandard facilities have been burning their clothes and plastic materials to stave off winter cold after they failed to afford firewood and fuel supplies.
Most of northern Syria’s 1,277 displacement camps, according to Civil Defense statistics, including 366 random camps housing about 1 million displaced persons, including Palestinian refugees, are overcrowded.
Their residents are forced to use primitive materials to secure a thermal source for cooking, such as burning plastic and nylon, given the soaring prices of fuels and their deteriorating living conditions.
AGPS continues to urge the Palestine Liberation Organization, UNRWA, and the Syrian authorities to live up to their responsibilities and take urgent action to save Palestinians scattered across the embattled Syrian territories and provide them with the physical, legal, and moral protection quite needed at such a critical stage.
