Published : 05-06-2017
A report released by AGPS on the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression kept record of the death of 220 Palestinian children due to war-related incidents in Syria, according to statistics for the period until April 5, 2017.
The leading causes of death included shelling, sniper attacks, clashes, blockade, and drowning.
According to AGPS data, 70 children died as a result of the tough blockade imposed by the Syrian government forces and their war partners on Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus.
Dozens of Palestinian and Syrian children have, meanwhile, had mysterious fates in government jails. 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.
At the same time, hundreds of children are on the verge of death in such besieged areas as Yarmouk due to undernourishment and the blockade. Thousands of children in Yarmouk Camp and southern Syria have also 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 access roads out of and into the area.
AGPS believes such violations contravene Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child which stipulates that “States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse.”
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 AlSheih, and Daraa. 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.
A report released by AGPS on the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression kept record of the death of 220 Palestinian children due to war-related incidents in Syria, according to statistics for the period until April 5, 2017.
The leading causes of death included shelling, sniper attacks, clashes, blockade, and drowning.
According to AGPS data, 70 children died as a result of the tough blockade imposed by the Syrian government forces and their war partners on Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus.
Dozens of Palestinian and Syrian children have, meanwhile, had mysterious fates in government jails. 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.
At the same time, hundreds of children are on the verge of death in such besieged areas as Yarmouk due to undernourishment and the blockade. Thousands of children in Yarmouk Camp and southern Syria have also 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 access roads out of and into the area.
AGPS believes such violations contravene Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child which stipulates that “States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse.”
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 AlSheih, and Daraa. 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.
