06-04-2016, 21:32
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Palestinian Syrians: Twice refugees
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...1055107834.html
Syria's Palestinians
Before civil war erupted in Syria, an estimated 560,000 Palestinian refugees lived in the country. A largely invisible minority, Palestinians intermarried with locals and integrated smoothly into the social fabric of the country, even being eligible to be drafted by the Syrian military.
Since neighbouring Jordan and Lebanon closed their borders to Syrian Palestinians from Syria in 2015 (and later to Syrians in general), Europe has become an increasingly attractive destination for them.
According to the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, more than 110,000 Syrian-born Palestinians have fled Syria since the start of the conflict. Another 450,000 have been internally displaced.
"We estimate that at least 60,000 have fled the region [outside UNRWA's jurisdiction of Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine]," UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness told Al Jazeera. "Probably a good many of those have fled to Europe."
"What we're seeing is the increasing regional vulnerability and fragility of Palestinians. They no longer feel safe in the region, so they are braving the life-threatening journey to Europe," said Gunness, referring to the repeated displacement of the Palestinians, beginning with the purge of a large number from Palestine after the country's partition in 1948, and since then, throughout the regional conflicts in varying countries over the past decades. "They are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable," he says. |
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