Among the continuing flurry of global media coverage on the crisis in Syria, the situation of the estimated 6 million displaced by conflict has gained only sporadic reportage. Meanwhile, the second large scale displacement of the longstanding Palestinian refugee population in Syria has been little mentioned.
By September 2013, close to 60% of this 500,000 strong community had been displaced. It is increasingly difficult for them to leave Syria, but of the bordering countries – including Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq – these refugees have been completely barred from taking refuge in only one, Israel, built on the same regions of historic Palestine from which they and their families were expelled in 1948.
As millions of children around the world return to school for a new year, the infographic “Back to School” – produced by VP in partnership with UNRWA and the EU – highlights the challenges faced by Palestinian refugee children from Syria, from displacement to school closures, emergency education provision and the simple uncertainty over whether they will have access to education.
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Is there some special difference between current Syrian refugees
and the descendants Palestinian refugees living in Syria that they get this special treatment.
Shouldn’t the UN repurpose UNRWA to deal with the current much larger scale humanitarian cryris in Syria ?
Meanwhile Israeli Jews remain the ultimate victims despite having OECD level income per head. What a joke.
Yes they are barred from refuge in the West Bank, but by the Palestinians not Israel.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/01/10/259678.html
“Among the continuing flurry of global media coverage on the crisis in Syria,”
Especially here on Mondowiess for the last couple of month.
Nothing, Zero, no Israel to blame.
No news about Syria.
Not to belittle in any way the plight of the Palestinian children that fled Syria as they were already refugees with some of their parents having become refugees 3 and 4 times in their lifetime as they keep getting kicked around, but it should be noted that there are now over a million refugees from Syria in Lebanon, a quarter of Lebanon’s total population, of which there are 400,000 children of school age with not enough schools to take them in. Part of those 400,000 are the Palestinian children being discussed here. There aren’t enough schools to take them in because of Lebanon’s odd school system that’s about 75% private and 25% public and unable to absorb the national demand for enrolment caused by the rising costs in the private system. Most public schools are now working on 2 shifts to accomodate a small fraction of the 400,000 additional kids, and the small number of those Syrian and Palestinian kids lucky enough to get enrolled are going to school from 3 or 4 pm.
Arab countries that have been bankrolling the arms for the rebellion in Syria (reportedly about 5 or 6 billions) are not moving to help cover the cost of these Syrian refugees.