Published : 11-12-2022
As weather temperatures have gone down, Palestinian refugee families in Syria continue to struggle with multiple hardships.
Speaking with AGPS, a number of Palestinian refugees said they have no heating equipment except for blankets and mattresses.
The families expressed fear that they won’t be able to cook their food or keep the cold out of their homes this year due to fuel dearth, as a freezing winter season is about to unlock its gates.
The refugees have launched into a tirade against the malpractices of Syria’s burgeoning black oil market, fuel shortages, and—most of all—the exorbitant prices of wood and fuel charged by corrupt officials and traders.
The price of a ton of wood has been raised to over one million Syrian pounds while a liter of fuel is sold in the black market at over 18,000 pounds.
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.
This has resulted in heavy smokes engulfing camps from all corners and engendering civilians’, particularly children’s, health condition.
Activists sounded the alarm over the health hazards emanating from toxic smokes. Scores of children have sustained costochondritis (chest inflammation) and bronchitis due to heavy smoke inhalation.
Earlier this year, Head of Advocacy, Media & Communications for the Middle East at Norwegian Refugee Council, Samah Hadid, said life has never been this unaffordable for the displaced and returnees in Syria; People have to eat less, burn clothes to keep warm, skip medical procedures and live in destroyed homes. Parents lie awake at night worrying about how to buy bread for their children.
As weather temperatures have gone down, Palestinian refugee families in Syria continue to struggle with multiple hardships.
Speaking with AGPS, a number of Palestinian refugees said they have no heating equipment except for blankets and mattresses.
The families expressed fear that they won’t be able to cook their food or keep the cold out of their homes this year due to fuel dearth, as a freezing winter season is about to unlock its gates.
The refugees have launched into a tirade against the malpractices of Syria’s burgeoning black oil market, fuel shortages, and—most of all—the exorbitant prices of wood and fuel charged by corrupt officials and traders.
The price of a ton of wood has been raised to over one million Syrian pounds while a liter of fuel is sold in the black market at over 18,000 pounds.
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.
This has resulted in heavy smokes engulfing camps from all corners and engendering civilians’, particularly children’s, health condition.
Activists sounded the alarm over the health hazards emanating from toxic smokes. Scores of children have sustained costochondritis (chest inflammation) and bronchitis due to heavy smoke inhalation.
Earlier this year, Head of Advocacy, Media & Communications for the Middle East at Norwegian Refugee Council, Samah Hadid, said life has never been this unaffordable for the displaced and returnees in Syria; People have to eat less, burn clothes to keep warm, skip medical procedures and live in destroyed homes. Parents lie awake at night worrying about how to buy bread for their children.
