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Palestinian refugees in Syria

People ride on a motorcycle at the entrance of the Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in the south of Damascus on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
December 22, 2024, 8:25 am
Amid ruins of Damascus camp-city, Palestinian refugees recall horrors of Assad’s regime
Mahmud Khaled Ajaj describes torture he faced in Syrian prison while Haitham Hassan al-Nada recounts being shot, left for dead as a deserter for not wanting to fight in Syrian army
By Dave Clark
In this July 16, 2018 photo, Palestinian Abdul-Mahmoud sisters from right to left, Amal, Hanan, Izdihar, Myasar, pose for a picture outside their house on Lod street at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
July 19, 2018, 10:21 pm
Sisters recount years of horror in Syria’s Palestinian camp
Residents of Yarmouk are traumatized by inhumane conditions, the cruelty of Islamic State, relentless fighting, bombardment, siege, and starvation
By AP
In this Friday, July 14, 2017 photo, Muhannad Khaled Omar, right, prepares an image of US President Donald Trump on the back of a customer's head at his barber shop in Burj al-Barajneh, southern Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
July 22, 2017, 8:25 am
Lebanon barber creates portraits on clients’ heads
Muhannad Khaled Omar, a Palestinian-Syrian stylist, says he has ‘mixed psychology, cutting hair and drawing into one profession’
By PHILIP ISSA
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, February 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 10, 2017, 10:12 am
Israel can treat, but not absorb, Syrian casualties – minister
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz says taking in refugees could push Palestinians to demand the same
By Stuart Winer
Palestinian refugees from Syria's Yarmouk refugee camp sit on mattresses inside a school as they prepare for their official exams for the 9th grade in the capital Damascus, on May 20, 2015. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)
January 9, 2017, 6:49 pm
UN appeals for funds for Palestinians caught up in Syria war
$411 million needed for half a million refugees in Syria in ‘critical need’ and 47,000 others in Jordan, Lebanon
By AFP
Palestinian children attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in April 2013 (Illustrative photo: AP/Hatem Moussa)
November 17, 2016, 9:35 pm
Canada reinstates funding to UN agency that aids Palestinians
Ottawa to restore financial support to UNRWA after the previous Conservative government halted all assistance
By JTA
A boy captured by Syrian rebels before being beheaded, in a video released June 19, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
July 20, 2016, 12:27 pm
Video shows ‘Palestinian’ boy beheaded by US-backed Syrian rebels
Teenage boy accused of belonging to regime-supporting Al-Quds Brigades; Washington says it may stop funding group that captured him
By AFP and ToI Staff
An alleged Russian airstrike at the Khan Eshieh refugee camp in southern Syria, May 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
July 5, 2016, 7:17 pm
3 Palestinians killed in airstrike on Syrian refugee camp
Khan Eshieh, outside Damascus, has seen heavy fighting in recent days as Russian planes back Syrian troops against rebels
By ToI Staff
A shell lies on the ground at the heavily damaged Sobhi Abu Karsh school in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, a Hamas stronghold, Tuesday, August 5, 2014. (photo credit: Mohammed Abed/AFP)
May 23, 2016, 6:11 pm
UN Palestinian agency says half its schools hit by conflict
Over 70% of UNRWA schools in Syria are inoperable, officials say, with 450,000 Palestinians left in war-torn country
By ToI Staff and AFP
File: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on March 14, 2016 at the United Nations in New York (AFP/Don Emmert)
March 26, 2016, 1:45 am
UN chief urges release of detained and missing staff
Dozens of aid workers have lost their lives since start of Syria conflict
By Edith M. Lederer
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 1, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
September 5, 2015, 9:38 pm
Abbas: Allow Palestinian refugees from Syria into West Bank
PA leader to urge UN, EU to pressure Israel to allow those fleeing civil war to cross; plea follows Herzog’s appeal to take in Syrians
By ToI Staff
A girl holds a snack at a school, during the visit of Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), background left, in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April 12, 2015. (AP Photo)
August 19, 2015, 9:39 pm
UN’s Palestinian refugee schools to open despite cash crunch
$100 million shortfall threatened to delay UNRWA school year in four countries; Arab states, US help close gap
By AFP
Men walk past destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 6, 2015. AFP (photo credit:/YOUSSEF KARWASHAN)
August 19, 2015, 3:05 am
UN: Typhoid outbreak among Palestinian refugees in Syria
UNRWA says it has set up medical clinic at besieged Yarmouk, on outskirts of Damascus, and identified at least 6 cases
By AP
Palestinians receive their monthly food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 13, 2015, 9:36 pm
In UNRWA’s financial crisis, a looming risk for Israel
With Israel and US ambivalent about its role, deficit of $101 million may force UN agency to shutter 700 schools as new academic year approaches
By Elhanan Miller
Illustrative photo of Syrian refugees, May 29, 2014 (AFP/Anwar Amro)
June 3, 2015, 4:28 pm
1,000 Syrian refugees languishing on Jordan’s border, group charges
Human Rights Watch ups pressure on Amman, which has already allowed 630,000 refugees into the country
By AP
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