[ PIC 20/04/2013 – 03:26 PM ]
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The study issued by the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights in Geneva, the Action Group For Palestinians of Syria in London and the Palestinian Return Centre in London confirms that 600 thousand Palestinian refugees have left Syria heading to Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt and Libya, since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis on March 15, 2011.
According to the study, the dire humanitarian situation experienced by Palestinian refugees in Syria has become more and more complicated; after being dragged to the Syrian internal conflict by the conflicting parties, in addition to being neglected by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) which does not provide the necessary assistance for the refugees and the displaced.
The study also points out that the Jordanian government refuses to allow the Palestinian refugees to enter its territories, in violation of the international law, while the Lebanese government puts obstacles to the regularization of the situation of refugees who have entered the Lebanese territory.
Nearly 20 thousand Palestinian refugees from Syria live in catastrophic conditions in Lebanon, which has forced large numbers of them to resort to the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon that are originally not able to receive them, reported the legal study.
The number of Palestinian refugees killed in Syria reached 995, in light of the continued daily military operations against the UNRWA’s refugee camps and the sieges imposed on them.
The three international institutions demanded the concerned authorities, especially the UNRWA and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to take all the necessary measures to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian refugees in Syria.
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