Published : 28-11-2017
AGPS’s Monitoring and Documentation Team recorded the disappearance of 304 Palestinian refugees since the beginning of the Syrian war, of which 38 are women. The Group added that more than half of those missing were from the Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus.
Activists accused the groups loyal to the Syrian security of carrying out kidnapping and arrest operations, either because the security needs the person missing or in order to bargain with the relatives of the abducted person and request a ransom for their release.
In addition, the Syrian security is still concealing the fate or places of detention of a large number of those missing in the prisons of the regime. The presence of the missing Palestinian refugees inside the regime’s prisons was confirmed by the testimonies of those released from detention.
According to one of the released detainees - who chose to stay anonymous - he saw the 16 year old Palestinian-Syrian “Omar Mohammed Seyam” from Yarmouk camp. The boy went missing on 21-11-2012, and later his presence inside one of the security branches in Damascus was revealed.
AGPS’s Monitoring and Documentation Team confirmed that the number is even greater, regarding the Syrian security and its loyal groups’ silence about the fate of the kidnapped Palestinians, in addition to the number of refugees who were previously kidnapped by Al-Nusra Front in Yarmouk camp and ISIS.
AGPS’s Monitoring and Documentation Team recorded the disappearance of 304 Palestinian refugees since the beginning of the Syrian war, of which 38 are women. The Group added that more than half of those missing were from the Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus.
Activists accused the groups loyal to the Syrian security of carrying out kidnapping and arrest operations, either because the security needs the person missing or in order to bargain with the relatives of the abducted person and request a ransom for their release.
In addition, the Syrian security is still concealing the fate or places of detention of a large number of those missing in the prisons of the regime. The presence of the missing Palestinian refugees inside the regime’s prisons was confirmed by the testimonies of those released from detention.
According to one of the released detainees - who chose to stay anonymous - he saw the 16 year old Palestinian-Syrian “Omar Mohammed Seyam” from Yarmouk camp. The boy went missing on 21-11-2012, and later his presence inside one of the security branches in Damascus was revealed.
AGPS’s Monitoring and Documentation Team confirmed that the number is even greater, regarding the Syrian security and its loyal groups’ silence about the fate of the kidnapped Palestinians, in addition to the number of refugees who were previously kidnapped by Al-Nusra Front in Yarmouk camp and ISIS.
