Published : 06-02-2018
AGPS revealed in its annual report for 2017, titled “Palestinians of Syria… Between Promises and Restrictions,” which it issued in the beginning of February, that 2017 was not any better than the previous years in general. The residents of Khan Al-Sheih camp suffered from harsh living conditions, due to the suffocating siege imposed by the Syrian regime, tightening its security grip on it, and preventing its residents from entering and leaving it without a security approval.
In addition to the spread of unemployment among them, the lack of financial resources, and the increasing prices. The report indicated that the regime forced the staff and university students wishing to leave the camp, to register their names in the detachment of the Palestine Liberation Army a day before their departure, where immoral practices are carried out by the members of the detachment against the residents and some of the females from the camp, subjecting them to frauds and taking their telephone numbers by force.
The report consisting of 146 pages, showed that the residents of Khan Al-Sheih camp lived in a state of fear and anxiety, as a result of the continuing raids and arrests that affected many of them, despite an agreement between the regime and the Syrian armed opposition to stay away from the people and to lift the strict siege imposed on the camp.
The report also indicated that the residents of Khan Al-Sheih camp suffering from humanitarian conditions described as tragic, appealed to the PLO, the Palestinian factions and UNRWA for an urgent solution to their suffering, stressing that the Palestinian officials' visits to the camp during 2017 did not resolve the problems they face. In addition, no amount has been spent from the 25 million Syrian pounds that were donated by Doctor Samir El-Refaei, Member of the Central Committee of the Fath Movement during his visit to the camp on January 3rd 2017, as an urgent assistance to restore the services and infrastructure of the camp, and it stayed in the pockets of those who received the money, according to them.
According to the report, in 2017 the Syrian regime prevented the distribution of aid to the families whose sons had gone to Idlib, under the agreement concluded between the Syrian armed opposition forces in Khan Al-Sheih and the Syrian regime in early December 2016.
The General Authority for Arab Palestine Refugees in Syria, in coordination with UNICEF, distributed winter clothes and shoes to all the children of the camp, except for the families from which one of its sons went to Idlib.
Meanwhile, activists confirmed to the Action Group that the camp’s committee, chaired by Ismaeil Nofal, had submitted a list to the Syrian military security branch with the names of 220 people from the camp, who had gone out to Idlib. Most of the people who had been displaced from the camp were relief activists and camp workers.
The residents of the Khan Al-Sheih area, its camp, farmers and orchards, appealed to the concerned parties to put an end to the crisis traders, who cut fruit trees from the orchards and gardens of the area and sell them to residents as wood at very high prices, demanding that the Syrian regime and its popular committees hold these traders accountable and that they provide heating materials at reasonable prices and in large quantities for the area. You can download the electronic version of the report on his link:
http://www.actionpal.org.uk/ar/reports/special/between_promises_and_restrictions_ar.pdf
AGPS revealed in its annual report for 2017, titled “Palestinians of Syria… Between Promises and Restrictions,” which it issued in the beginning of February, that 2017 was not any better than the previous years in general. The residents of Khan Al-Sheih camp suffered from harsh living conditions, due to the suffocating siege imposed by the Syrian regime, tightening its security grip on it, and preventing its residents from entering and leaving it without a security approval.
In addition to the spread of unemployment among them, the lack of financial resources, and the increasing prices. The report indicated that the regime forced the staff and university students wishing to leave the camp, to register their names in the detachment of the Palestine Liberation Army a day before their departure, where immoral practices are carried out by the members of the detachment against the residents and some of the females from the camp, subjecting them to frauds and taking their telephone numbers by force.
The report consisting of 146 pages, showed that the residents of Khan Al-Sheih camp lived in a state of fear and anxiety, as a result of the continuing raids and arrests that affected many of them, despite an agreement between the regime and the Syrian armed opposition to stay away from the people and to lift the strict siege imposed on the camp.
The report also indicated that the residents of Khan Al-Sheih camp suffering from humanitarian conditions described as tragic, appealed to the PLO, the Palestinian factions and UNRWA for an urgent solution to their suffering, stressing that the Palestinian officials' visits to the camp during 2017 did not resolve the problems they face. In addition, no amount has been spent from the 25 million Syrian pounds that were donated by Doctor Samir El-Refaei, Member of the Central Committee of the Fath Movement during his visit to the camp on January 3rd 2017, as an urgent assistance to restore the services and infrastructure of the camp, and it stayed in the pockets of those who received the money, according to them.
According to the report, in 2017 the Syrian regime prevented the distribution of aid to the families whose sons had gone to Idlib, under the agreement concluded between the Syrian armed opposition forces in Khan Al-Sheih and the Syrian regime in early December 2016.
The General Authority for Arab Palestine Refugees in Syria, in coordination with UNICEF, distributed winter clothes and shoes to all the children of the camp, except for the families from which one of its sons went to Idlib.
Meanwhile, activists confirmed to the Action Group that the camp’s committee, chaired by Ismaeil Nofal, had submitted a list to the Syrian military security branch with the names of 220 people from the camp, who had gone out to Idlib. Most of the people who had been displaced from the camp were relief activists and camp workers.
The residents of the Khan Al-Sheih area, its camp, farmers and orchards, appealed to the concerned parties to put an end to the crisis traders, who cut fruit trees from the orchards and gardens of the area and sell them to residents as wood at very high prices, demanding that the Syrian regime and its popular committees hold these traders accountable and that they provide heating materials at reasonable prices and in large quantities for the area. You can download the electronic version of the report on his link:
http://www.actionpal.org.uk/ar/reports/special/between_promises_and_restrictions_ar.pdf
