Published : 06-04-2017
On the occasion of the Palestinian Child’s Day, AGPS documented the death of 220 Palestinian children due to war-related incidents in Syria until April 5, 2017.
The leading causes of death varied between shelling, sniper attacks, clashes, the blockade, and drowning.
AGPS found out that 70 children died as a result of the tough blockade imposed by the Syrian government and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) on Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus. Affidavits by ex-detainees provided evidence for the presence of toddlers clinging to their mother’s arms in Syrian government lock-ups.
Hundreds of children trapped in Yarmouk, among other Palestinian refugee camps in southern Damascus, are on the verge of death due to undernourishment and medical neglect.
Palestinian children in Syria have also been denied the right to adequate education. Several have dropped out of school as the Syrian fighter jets continue to strike schools in Yarmouk, Khan AlSheih, and Daraa camps with missiles and artillery shells. The latest such onslaught targeted UNRWA-run Biria School in Khan AlSheih on November 17, 2016.
At the same time, ISIS militias closed most of Yarmouk’s alternative schools.
Thousands of Palestinian children from Syria in Lebanon and Turkey gave up classes as they rummaged around for livelihoods to help their impoverished families.
Beyond the immediate loss of parents and siblings, destruction of property, abductions, and sexual abuse, Syria’s warfare has wrought long-term psychological effects on the Palestinian children who survived years of airstrikes and bloody hostilities. Hundreds of children have risked their lives onboard the death boats to Europe. Inside or outside Syria, Palestinian refugee children have been diagnosed with symptoms of trauma and psychosis.
On the occasion of the Palestinian Children’s Day, AGPS urges all international institutions and UN organs, most notably UNICEF and UNRWA, to work on providing Palestinian and Syrian children with the needed physical and moral protection.
AGPS calls on all warring parties in Syria to cease attacks and shelling on schools and combine forces to restore children’s right to a safe education and a dignified life.
On the occasion of the Palestinian Child’s Day, AGPS documented the death of 220 Palestinian children due to war-related incidents in Syria until April 5, 2017.
The leading causes of death varied between shelling, sniper attacks, clashes, the blockade, and drowning.
AGPS found out that 70 children died as a result of the tough blockade imposed by the Syrian government and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) on Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus. Affidavits by ex-detainees provided evidence for the presence of toddlers clinging to their mother’s arms in Syrian government lock-ups.
Hundreds of children trapped in Yarmouk, among other Palestinian refugee camps in southern Damascus, are on the verge of death due to undernourishment and medical neglect.
Palestinian children in Syria have also been denied the right to adequate education. Several have dropped out of school as the Syrian fighter jets continue to strike schools in Yarmouk, Khan AlSheih, and Daraa camps with missiles and artillery shells. The latest such onslaught targeted UNRWA-run Biria School in Khan AlSheih on November 17, 2016.
At the same time, ISIS militias closed most of Yarmouk’s alternative schools.
Thousands of Palestinian children from Syria in Lebanon and Turkey gave up classes as they rummaged around for livelihoods to help their impoverished families.
Beyond the immediate loss of parents and siblings, destruction of property, abductions, and sexual abuse, Syria’s warfare has wrought long-term psychological effects on the Palestinian children who survived years of airstrikes and bloody hostilities. Hundreds of children have risked their lives onboard the death boats to Europe. Inside or outside Syria, Palestinian refugee children have been diagnosed with symptoms of trauma and psychosis.
On the occasion of the Palestinian Children’s Day, AGPS urges all international institutions and UN organs, most notably UNICEF and UNRWA, to work on providing Palestinian and Syrian children with the needed physical and moral protection.
AGPS calls on all warring parties in Syria to cease attacks and shelling on schools and combine forces to restore children’s right to a safe education and a dignified life.
