A Palestinian human rights monitoring has documented the deaths of 4,116 Palestinian refugees in Syria since March 2011, most of them in Yarmouk and Daraa refugee camps.
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has recorded the deathof 4,116 Palestinian refugees, including 493 women.
According to statistics, the Yarmouk refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Damascus topped the general list of victims, as it documented 1,490 victims of its sons, due to the siege and destruction it was subjected to and attempts to regain control over it, as it witnessed bombing, destruction and more casualties.
Daraa camp in southern Syria ranks second in the number of victims, as 272 of its residents died, then Khan al-Sheih camp in Damascus countryside 204 victims, then al-Nairab camp in Aleppo 184 victims, then al-Hussainiya camp, which killed 127 victims, while the group documented 194 victims. Their place of residence is not known.
The group’s monitoring and documentation team also revealed that 1,225 refugees died due to the bombing, and 1,111 died due to a gunshot wound, while torture to death in Syrian prisons comes in the third place, as the group documented 636 Palestinians, including women, children and the elderly, while the number of drowning victims increased over Migration routes reached 72 refugees, and more than a thousand refugees died for other reasons, including bombings, field executions, the siege of Yarmouk camp, and assassinations.
The AGPS documents all Palestinian refugee victims in Syria, regardless of their political positions or the party responsible for their death, the group claims.
Syria’s conflict began in March 2011 and has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
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