Palestinians Escaping Conflict Denied Entry to Syria’s Neighbors: Report

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Alwaght-Countries neighboring war-torn Syria have been preventing the entry of Palestinian refugees into their territories despite the ongoing conflict in the country.
According to a Sunday statement issued by The Action Group for Palestinians, Jordanian border forces prevent Palestinians escaping Syria from entering the country based on an official order by the government.
Lebanese authorities have also imposed certain conditions described by refugees as crippling before being allowed to enter Lebanon.
Those who are permitted to enter Lebanon must possess documents that prove being invited for reunion interviews in European embassies or must have flight reservation through Beirut Airport.
As for Turkey, the Turkish embassy in Beirut stopped the issuance of entry of visas for Palestinian refugees from Syria to its borders two years ago. Turkish embassies in the Persian Gulf countries, however, still issue entry visas for Palestinians from Syria, but only for those who have residencies in those countries.
Human rights activists have protested such procedures saying they put the lives of Palestinian refugees in Syria at a real risk, which runs contrary to international laws and regulations on the protection of refugees during wars and crises.
Meanwhile Palestinian refugees from Syria now residing in Lebanon on Thursday protested aid cuts in camps and outside offices of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Protesters in camps located in Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, the Bekaa Valley and Tripoli held banners that read: “The health and the education of our children is our right."
UNRWA this month halted its $100 monthly payments for housing subsidies due to a massive budget shortfall, threatening to leave the more than 43,000 Palestinian refugee families from Syria homeless.
The agency will also stop its monthly food stipend of $27 per person in the next couple of months.
After the Israeli entity was created in 1948 through illegal and forceful occupation of Palestinian territories, approximately 90,000 Palestinians became refugees in Syria. UNRWA estimates that before the 2011 outbreak of the Syrian conflict, this number was close to 560,000. Most of these Palestinians lived in one of the 15 refugee camps in Syria, the largest of which was al-Yarmouk, home to some 160,000 refugees. In total, Palestinian refugees made up 3 percent of Syria's total population.

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