Published : 30-12-2022
Palestinian-Syrian child Ahmad Aghid Yaser AlSarhan, born and raised in Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, has been left on his own at AlMujtahed Clinic, where he underwent a leg surgery.
Ahmad lost his parents in the conflict and has been left without shelter.
Palestinian refugee children continue to struggle with the devastating impact of the twelve-year warfare in Syria, where increasing rates of juvenile delinquency, unemployment, and psychological disorders have been confirmed.
Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have also increasingly emerged in displacement camps set up for Palestinian refugees in Syria
Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.
Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
Upon more than one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
Palestinian-Syrian child Ahmad Aghid Yaser AlSarhan, born and raised in Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, has been left on his own at AlMujtahed Clinic, where he underwent a leg surgery.
Ahmad lost his parents in the conflict and has been left without shelter.
Palestinian refugee children continue to struggle with the devastating impact of the twelve-year warfare in Syria, where increasing rates of juvenile delinquency, unemployment, and psychological disorders have been confirmed.
Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have also increasingly emerged in displacement camps set up for Palestinian refugees in Syria
Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.
Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
Upon more than one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
