A Palestinian rights monitor said that more than 200 children live in difficult conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, stressing that the scenes of destruction and the rubble of houses have become a nightmare engraved in their minds, which has created psychological problems that have greatly affected their lives.
The children of Yarmouk camp describe the area as a ghost town, as they have to play among destroyed buildings and empty of their residents, and they have to cross them to reach their schools outside the camp, said the Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria.
Children also miss playgrounds after the war destroyed them. There are no efforts to create centers or gardens for their amusement.
AGPS says that providing psychosocial support to Palestine refugee children has become critical to help mitigate the psychosocial impact of the conflict and strengthen their coping mechanisms.
The Yarmouk camp is devoid of schools to educate children and health clinics to receive treatment, so that parents and children are forced to walk more than 4 kilometers on foot to buy their basic needs, due to the lack of shops or materials sold in the camp, and the lack of transportation to transport them to and from outside the camp.
Many Palestinian children in Syria live without a sense of safety and security, forcing many of them to live in collective shelters, damaged homes, or with relatives in overcrowded housing.
The residents of the camp, who obtained security permits to return to their homes and properties, are asking the Damascus governorate to remove the rubble and rubble from the camp’s lanes and streets, and to grant them permits to restore their homes.
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