More than 20 percent of Syria’s Palestinian refugees have fled the country and its five-year war, says the head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA.
“Before the war, there were 560,000 Palestine refugees. We estimate that currently about 110,000 to 120,000 have left the country,” UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl says on a visit to Damascus.
“There are about 45,000 who went to Lebanon, 15,000 to Jordan,” he says. “The others –- therefore almost half of those who have left –- have traveled, we presume, through Turkey and then to a variety of other countries.
“Some of them will be in Europe. We know of Palestine refugees who have reached parts of Asia. We know of some who have reached Latin America.”
Syria is home to 12 refugee camps, three of them unofficial, according to UNRWA.
— AFP
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