Published : 20-05-2018
The war in Syria was not limited to the victims, the wounded and the displaced, but extended to threaten the future of hundreds of children who were forced by the economic circumstances in their places of displacement, and their families, to leave their studies and seek work to help their families provide their living expenses and rent houses.
In the face of these harsh conditions, hundreds of refugee children have been forced to do jobs that are not commensurate with their age and the nature of their vulnerable bodies. They work in difficult occupations such as carrying heavy carts, garbage collection, washing cars and other occupations that do not suit them.
For their part, Palestinian activists attribute the main cause of Palestinian-Syrian child labor, especially in the neighboring Syrian countries, to UNRWA's failure to meet its obligations and responsibilities towards the refugee children and their families, in addition to the absence of the Palestinian embassies’ roles in alleviating the suffering of Palestinian refugees.
The situation of children of the Palestinian-Syrian refugees inside Syria is somewhat similar to that of their counterparts who were displaced outside Syria, due to unemployment, security tension and the lack of schools in some of the cities that have been displaced to inside Syria.
The war in Syria was not limited to the victims, the wounded and the displaced, but extended to threaten the future of hundreds of children who were forced by the economic circumstances in their places of displacement, and their families, to leave their studies and seek work to help their families provide their living expenses and rent houses.
In the face of these harsh conditions, hundreds of refugee children have been forced to do jobs that are not commensurate with their age and the nature of their vulnerable bodies. They work in difficult occupations such as carrying heavy carts, garbage collection, washing cars and other occupations that do not suit them.
For their part, Palestinian activists attribute the main cause of Palestinian-Syrian child labor, especially in the neighboring Syrian countries, to UNRWA's failure to meet its obligations and responsibilities towards the refugee children and their families, in addition to the absence of the Palestinian embassies’ roles in alleviating the suffering of Palestinian refugees.
The situation of children of the Palestinian-Syrian refugees inside Syria is somewhat similar to that of their counterparts who were displaced outside Syria, due to unemployment, security tension and the lack of schools in some of the cities that have been displaced to inside Syria.
