Interim Government Delivers Aid to 137 Palestinian-Syrian Refugees in Turkey

The General Commission of the Palestinian-Syrian Refugees of the Syrian interim government delivered heating stoves and firewood to 137 Palestinian-Syrian families in the Turkish city of Kilis. It is worth noting that UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said on Monday that 60% of Palestinian refugees in Syria have either been displaced internally or “become refugees a second time over” in neighboring countries since the conflict began. Krähenbühl, who spoke at the UNRWA Advisory Commission Meeting in Jordan Monday, said that between 16,000 and 18,000 Palestinians are “still trapped, living in hunger, cold and constant fear” in the Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus, besieged by regime forces for more than a year and a half. UNRWA has experienced increasing difficulty bringing supplies into the camp since the summer, he said. On the topic of education, Krähenbühl said that more than two-thirds of UNRWA’s schools in Syria have become “unusable,” either damaged by fighting or “in areas to difficult to reach. Schools engulfed in the fighting is another dramatic example of the disregard for the sanctity of civilian life shown by parties to this conflict and it must be condemned.” (Source: Syrian Coalition + Syrian Interim Government)