Published : 21-11-2016
A report issued by AGPS on the occasion of Children’s Universal Day, marked annually on November 20, kept record of the death of 211 Palestinian refugee children in war-torn Syria until September 2016. Shelling, sniper fire, clashes, the blockade, and drowning onboard immigration boats topped the list of the leading causes of death.
The data pointed out that 24 children died due to the tight blockade imposed by the Syrian government militias and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command on the Yarmouk Camp, in southern Syria.
Sworn affidavits by ex-detainees confirmed the presence of toddlers swung in their moms’ arms in Syrian prisons and whose fates have remained shrouded in mystery.
Thousands of other children have, meanwhile, been grappling with the calamitous upshots of the siege on Yarmouk and Khan Al-Sheih camps, along with other shelters in southern Syria. 3,000 children are on the verge of death in blockaded Khan Al-Sheih due to medical neglect and undernourishment.
Thousands of children in Yarmouk Camp and southern Syria have gone orphaned after they lost one or both of their parents in the deadly warfare or due to the blockade imposed by the government squads on the main accessroads out of and into the area.
At the same time, thousands of Palestinian children have been denied the right to education or bereaved of attending classes due to the heavy blitzes rocking refugee schools in Yarmouk, Khan Al-Sheih, and Deraa. The latest round of such attacks occurred on November 17, 2016, when fighter aircrafts targeted the UNRWA school in Khan Al-Sheih shelter.
ISIS outfits also shut down schools in Yarmouk Camp, blockaded by the Syrian regime and its Palestinian abettors.
Several Palestinian-Syrian children taking refuge in Lebanon and Turkey dropped out of school as they sought out livelihoods to feed themselves and their starved families in light of the reluctance maintained by the UNRWA and the international community vis-à-vis their tragic state of affairs.
Warfare in Syria has also had traumatic fallouts on Palestinian refugee children in and outside Syria. Post-traumatic stress disorders, mental psychosis, sleeplessness and nightmares, eating disorders, and intense fear have all been among the symptoms with which Palestinian children have been diagnosed.
On the occasion of Children’s Universal Day, AGPS renews its calls to the international community, human rights institutions, UNICEF, UNRWA, and all concerned bodies, to work on protecting Palestinian children in embattled Syria.
AGPS also calls on the Syrian regime and all warring parties to immediately cease fire and stop offensives on refugee schools and structures.
AGPS also appeals to Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey to urgently step in and take immediate action so as to assuage the tragedy endured by Palestinian children who fled war-ragged Syria and took refuge in the aforementioned states.
A report issued by AGPS on the occasion of Children’s Universal Day, marked annually on November 20, kept record of the death of 211 Palestinian refugee children in war-torn Syria until September 2016. Shelling, sniper fire, clashes, the blockade, and drowning onboard immigration boats topped the list of the leading causes of death.
The data pointed out that 24 children died due to the tight blockade imposed by the Syrian government militias and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command on the Yarmouk Camp, in southern Syria.
Sworn affidavits by ex-detainees confirmed the presence of toddlers swung in their moms’ arms in Syrian prisons and whose fates have remained shrouded in mystery.
Thousands of other children have, meanwhile, been grappling with the calamitous upshots of the siege on Yarmouk and Khan Al-Sheih camps, along with other shelters in southern Syria. 3,000 children are on the verge of death in blockaded Khan Al-Sheih due to medical neglect and undernourishment.
Thousands of children in Yarmouk Camp and southern Syria have gone orphaned after they lost one or both of their parents in the deadly warfare or due to the blockade imposed by the government squads on the main accessroads out of and into the area.
At the same time, thousands of Palestinian children have been denied the right to education or bereaved of attending classes due to the heavy blitzes rocking refugee schools in Yarmouk, Khan Al-Sheih, and Deraa. The latest round of such attacks occurred on November 17, 2016, when fighter aircrafts targeted the UNRWA school in Khan Al-Sheih shelter.
ISIS outfits also shut down schools in Yarmouk Camp, blockaded by the Syrian regime and its Palestinian abettors.
Several Palestinian-Syrian children taking refuge in Lebanon and Turkey dropped out of school as they sought out livelihoods to feed themselves and their starved families in light of the reluctance maintained by the UNRWA and the international community vis-à-vis their tragic state of affairs.
Warfare in Syria has also had traumatic fallouts on Palestinian refugee children in and outside Syria. Post-traumatic stress disorders, mental psychosis, sleeplessness and nightmares, eating disorders, and intense fear have all been among the symptoms with which Palestinian children have been diagnosed.
On the occasion of Children’s Universal Day, AGPS renews its calls to the international community, human rights institutions, UNICEF, UNRWA, and all concerned bodies, to work on protecting Palestinian children in embattled Syria.
AGPS also calls on the Syrian regime and all warring parties to immediately cease fire and stop offensives on refugee schools and structures.
AGPS also appeals to Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey to urgently step in and take immediate action so as to assuage the tragedy endured by Palestinian children who fled war-ragged Syria and took refuge in the aforementioned states.
