A Palestinian rights group has focused on the tragedy of Palestinian refugees in Syria, where tens of thousands are still forcibly displaced, facing successive hardships and calamities.
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said on the World Refugee Day that during the ten-year-old Syrian conflict, the majority of the Palestinian camps were bombed by the warring parties.
The war caused the displacement of nearly 40% of the estimated 438,000 Palestinian refugees who remained in Syria, most of whom are from Yarmouk camp south of Damascus.
More than 91% of Palestinian refugee families in Syria live in absolute poverty, and depend on the aid provided to them, due to continuous displacement and loss of livelihoods, high inflation rates, the depreciation of the Syrian pound, fluctuations in prices of basic commodities and the destruction of homes and infrastructure, AGPS said.
According to the monitoring group, the war pushed nearly 190,000 refugees to flee out of Syria. (120,000 Palestinian refugees in Europe, 27,700 in Lebanon, 17,500 in Jordan, 10,000 in Turkey, 4,000 in Greece, 4,350 refugees in Sudan, Egypt and the Gaza Strip).
Ten years of war in Syria have killed 500,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6.7 million as refugees to neighbouring countries.
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