A Palestinian rights monitor said at least 4,116 Palestinians in Syria lost their lives in the 11-year-old conflict, including 493 women and 252 children.
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, the situation of Palestinian refugees turned chaotic, and the Syrian regime's military operations killed, displaced and arrested them, without discrimination between a child, a woman, or an elderly person.
The London-based monitor’s statistics revealed that 4,116 Palestinian refugees died during 11 years, including 493 women and 252 children, explaining that Yarmouk camp in Damascus topped the general list of victims, as 1490 victims of its children were documented, due to the siege and destruction it was subjected to and attempts to regain control over it. It witnessed bombing, destruction and more casualties, followed by Daraa camp with 272 victims, then Khan al-Sheih camp with 204 victims, then al-Nayrab camp with 184 victims, then al-Hussainiya camp with 129 victims, while 194 victims of unknown residence were documented.
The report 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 ranked third, as the group documented 636 Palestinians, including women, children and the elderly.
As for the file of arrest and enforced disappearance, the Syrian regime has arrested thousands of Palestinian refugees, of whom the Action Group has documented, 1,797 Palestinian detainees in the security and intelligence branches of the Syrian regime, including 110 female detainees and 49 Palestinian children whose fate is still unknown, in addition to 333 missing persons, including 40 missing Palestinians and a number of children .
Most of the camps were bombed including the camps of Yarmouk, Khan Al Shieh, Sbeinah, Hussainiya, Handarat and Daraa camp witnessed heavy bombardment by the Syrian and Russian regime, which led to great destruction of homes and the displacement of their people, according to the AGPS.
UNRWA estimates the continuation of the displacement of 280,000 Palestinian refugees who remained in Syria, estimated at 438 thousand, most of whom are from Yarmouk camp, where the Syrian regime and its loyal groups are depriving thousands of its sons to return.
The war also pushed nearly 190,000 refugees to migrate outside Syria. According to the reports of the Action Group, more than 120,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria arrived in the EU countries, 27,700 in Lebanon, 17,343 in Jordan, 10,000 in Turkey, and more than 4,000 in Greece, and nearly 4350 refugees in Sudan, Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
The Arab countries and Turkey continue to prevent the entry of Palestinian refugees from Syria, and impose impossible conditions, while a number of Arab Gulf countries have stopped dealing with Palestinian refugees' travel documents, the AGPS said.
The rights monitoring stressed that more than 90% of Palestinian refugees in Syria live below the poverty line, while nearly 82% of them live on less than US$ 1.9 a day, and depend on the aid provided to them, due to continuous displacement, loss of livelihoods, high inflation rates, the collapse of the Syrian pound, fluctuations in the prices of basic commodities, and the destruction of homes and infrastructure.
The Syrian revolution that turned into a bloody conflict has claimed 500,000 lives and has displaced 13,2 million people since it erupted in March 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-regime protests.
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