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9 feb 2015
Food aid delivered to Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees
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The Marhama charity organization Sunday said it managed to dispatch 1500 food parcels, containing varieties of 20 food items, to the Yarmouk refugee camp for Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria.

500 food rations have been distributed over the past couple of days after the organization hardly managed to gain access into the refugee camp Friday due to the security mayhem rocking the region.

Head of the campaign, Rashad al-Baz, said the relief packages entered the camp via the relatively-calm Yalda and Babila areas, following a series of arrangements struck with Syrian parties.

He said the delegation escorting the humanitarian convoy has been on the alert to the dire living conditions endured by Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp, where neither food nor water are fit for human consumption.

Al-Baz called on activists and charity institutions to rally round the Marhama convoy and work on alleviating the humanitarian crises rocking the blockaded Yarmouk refugee camp.

Another humanitarian aid convoy is expected to be dispatched by the Marhama charitable trust to war-tattered Syria by the end of February.

7 feb 2015
Two symposiums on Syria's Palestinians soon in Germany
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The Palestinian Assembly and the Palestinian Women Association in Germany intends to hold a cultural symposium on Palestinians of Syria on February 15 in Dortmund city.

A lecture under the theme "Syria's Palestinians...A nakba repeats nakba" will be delivered during the meeting by coordinator of the Palestinian action group for the Palestinians of Syria Tareq Hamoud.

The Palestinian Assembly said it would also organize an evening meeting under the title "Syria's Palestinians…A new nakba" on 28 of the same month in Dubai Dreams conference venue in Germany.

The cultural meetings are part of Palestinian solidarity events to be launched in Europe ahead of the Palestinians in Europe Conference slated to kick off on April 25 in cooperation with Palestinian and Arab organizations active in Germany and other European countries.

5 feb 2015
Palestinian refugee dies in clashes in northern Syria
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A Palestinian refugee was killed in clashes between Syrian regime forces and armed opposition militias in Manasher area in Aleppo to the north of Syria.

The working group for Palestinians of Syria said in a press release on Wednesday that Khamis Jaber was killed during the clashes between the Syrian regular army and armed opposition elements.

It said that Jaber used to live in Ramel refugee camp in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia.

UNRWA 2015 Gaza Food Assistance in Distribution
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UNRWA announced, Thursday, that it had begun distributing its 2015 emergency food assistance to needy refugee families in the Gaza Strip.

According to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency, UNRWA revealed, in a recent press release, that the move comes as part of a wider framework to mantain its support of Palestinian refugee families in Gaza who are unable to meet their basic food security needs.

According to UNRWA the food assistance will include about 868 thousand refugees in Gaza, while keeping into consideration the size of the family and their poverty level.

This emergency food assistance comes in a time where Palestinian refugee families in Gaza continue to face worsening economic conditions as a result of the siege and restrictions imposed on the entry of goods and movement of people, in addition to the latest Israeli aggression that targeted the entire Gaza Strip.

UNRWA categorizes families whose income is no more than $1 a day as living "under extreme poverty", while families whose income is no more than $3 as living "under the poverty line".

UNRWA is responsible for providing food assistance, shelter and protection to more than 4.7 million Palestinian refugees in general. They are distributed in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

According to Robert Turner, UNRWA's Director of Operations in the Gaza Strip, 70% of Gaza’s population has refugee status, with more than 1.2 million under UNRWA’s care. He predicted that the number of those refugees will increase to 1.5 million by the year 2020.

Palestinians now make up the largest refugee population in the entire world, according to UN statistics.

3 feb 2015
Hamas, Amal movements condemn Egyptian court ruling
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A joint statement, issued Monday by representatives of Hamas movement in Beirut and the Lebanese Amal movement, strongly condemned Egyptian court ruling against al-Qassam Brigades.

The statement stressed the Palestinian people’s right to resist occupation until the liberation and the return of Palestinian refugees.

In a meeting held Monday, both movements denounced Cairo Court of Urgent Matters' decision to designate the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, as a terrorist organization.

The meeting was attended by chairman of Amal's political bureau Haj Jamil Hayek and other members of the movement, along with Hamas's representative in Lebanon Ali Baraka and a number of the movement's political leaders.

Both parties discussed key regional and Palestinian developments and the Lebanese-Palestinian relations.

The two movements agreed to support resistance by all possible means against the occupation’s attacks.

The statement called on the Arab and Islamic Nation to focus on the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, to support resistance by all means, and to defend Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.

Both parties stressed the importance of reinforcing Palestinian-Lebanese relationship, maintaining security and stability in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and rejecting all incitement attempts between the two peoples.

The statement also stressed the need to improve Palestinian refugees’ living conditions in Lebanon.

The meeting came as part of Hamas movement’s efforts to strengthen the Lebanese-Palestinian relations, and to improve the Palestinian refugees’ conditions in Lebanon.

2 feb 2015
Palestinian refugees in Cyprus reach agreement with govt
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The Palestinian community in Cyprus Sunday reached a final agreement with the Cypriot authorities, ending a standoff for Palestinian refugees taking shelters in refugee tents pitched in the capital Nicosia.

Nicola Khattab, a representative of the refugee community, told the diaspora department of the PLO that an agreement, pledging a decent life for Palestinian refugees who fled to the country from war-torn Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, was ultimately struck. 

The Cypriot government will allow the refugees to stay in the sheltering camp until Tuesday.

Soon after, the refugees are to be moved to more comfortable and well-outfitted residences. 

They will then be allowed to submit applications for asylum and visas in order to move freely across the country, the statement added.

The agreement was preceded by a series of visits paid by Palestinian delegations to Cyprus to work out the affair and find a way out of a stalemate for the Palestinian refugees who fled the war-tattered Syria. 

29 jan 2015
Wafa Campaign tables issue of Palestinian refugees in Cyprus
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A delegation from the European Wafa Campaign on Wednesday discussed with the leadership of the Progressive Party of Working People in Cyprus the humanitarian conditions of Palestinian asylum seekers who fled to the country from Syria.

The delegation, during the meeting, voiced hope to develop channels of Palestinian-Cypriot cooperation with international organizations to extend help to the Palestinian refugees in the country.

For its part, Cypriot lawmaker Skevi Koukouma, from the Progressive Party, expressed her solidarity with the Palestinian refugees, stressing on behalf of her party the need for urgent moves by the government and the parliament to find a solution ending their suffering.

The delegation also had the chance to meet with head of the Cyprus Peace Council Sylva Tiggiridou, who expressed keenness on ending the suffering of Palestinian refugees and pledged to raise their issue on all levels in the country.

25 jan 2015
Newborn dies in blockaded Yarmouk due to malnutrition
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A two-day baby on Saturday morning died of malnutrition and absence of medical care in the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of al-Yarmouk, south of the Syrian capital Damascus.

The newborn baby, named Joud, was the second one to die within a week in the camp, which has been under siege for more than two years.

Her death brings the number of Palestinian refugees killed by starvation or hunger-related causes under the regime siege on Yarmouk to date to 162 victims.

After most of its population fled following violent clashes in December 2012, some few thousands of Palestinian refugees have remained cut off from food supplies and medical aid as a result of months of blockade by the Syrian army and its militias, which forced them to subsist on a eating anything they could find, including grass, and cat and dog meat.

18 jan 2015
Haneyya pledges to help Palestinian refugees stranded in Cyprus
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Deputy head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haneyya on Saturday made a telephone call with representatives of the Palestinian refugees stranded in Cyprus after he received an appeal from them asking him to intervene to end their suffering.

In a statement released by Haneyya's office, the Hamas official phoned representatives of 180 Palestinian asylum seekers residing in shelters in Cyprus and listened to their complaints.

According to the statement, Haneyya pledged to conduct contacts with the Turkish leadership to allow them to enter its territory and to urge relief and humanitarian groups to extend help to them.

He also expressed his sincere thanks to the Cypriot authorities for saving dozens of Palestinian refugees, who escaped the woes of war in Syria, after their boat ran into trouble last September in the Mediterranean sea and for hosting them since then.

Pro-Palestine rallies in Netherlands, Germany push for lifting Gaza siege
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A series of rallies were staged Saturday by a consortium of pro-Palestine groups and activists based in the Netherlands and Germany in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza and of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.

An on-the-sport PIC journalist said a sit-in staged by the Koblenz-based Palestinian Assembly in Germany pushed for lifting the Gaza siege, pressing ahead with the rebuilding process, and unblocking the border-crossings.

Earlier, on December 27, a set of solidarity activities was launched by the European Campaign to Lift the Gaza Siege on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the notorious 2008 Israeli offensive on Gaza. The campaign is set to be wrapped up on January 18.

Meanwhile, a pro-Palestine march held by the Netherlands-based Palestinian House pushed for lifting the blockade on the Palestinians of Gaza and the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.

The marchers called for loosening the noose around Gazans’ necks and neutralizing the Palestinian refugee camps from the ongoing Syrian conflict.

17 jan 2015
A Palestinian desperate cry for help from Yarmouk camp
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Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp launched a distress call for lifting the two-year siege imposed by the Syrian regime on the camp.

The Syrian Media Commission published Friday on Facebook a video displaying Palestinian refugees, in the Yarmouk camp, while launching a distress call appealing to the international community, and the Islamic and Arab world to intervene and lift the unjustified siege.

The appeal referred to the very poor living conditions in the camp, where "food supplies have run out, forcing the refugees to eat grass and melt ice to drink". Furthermore, the refugees suffer from power outages, lack of fuel for heating, and the acute shortage of medicines.

The appeal pointed out that the number of deaths increased as starvation and epidemic diseases spread in the refugee camp.

The refugees tried to find other alternatives for heating using rechargeable batteries due to the fuel high prices.

They also tried using phone wires to transmit electric power; however the massive bombing destroyed the cable distributor while the power transmission station in the refugee camp had already been disabled.

The Syrian Media Commission confirmed that Yarmouk refugee camp, inhabited by 30,000 Palestinian refugees, has been subjected to a tight siege for more than two years amid frequent shelling despite the truce agreement.

13 jan 2015
Turkish coast guard saves 10 Palestinians in Aegean sea
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The Turkish coast guard has saved 22 illegal immigrants, including 10 Palestinians, aboard a boat floundering in Aegean sea waters after they left the Turkish mainland.

A communique issued by the Turkish coast guard command in Aydin city said its rescue teams launched a search for Syrian and Palestinian refugees after it received information on Sunday about their departure aboard a rubber boat from the coast of Didim town.

A total of 12,872 migrants trying to cross into Greece from Turkey over the Aegean Sea were saved by the Turkish coast guard teams in 524 separate incidents in 2014, while 74 people were also arrested on charges of smuggling migrants, Anadolu Agency said in a recent report.

11 jan 2015
2,596 Palestinians killed in Syria since beginning of war
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2,596 Palestinian refugees have been killed in Syria since the civil war started in 2011, the action group for the Palestinians of Syria stated in a brief report on Saturday.

The action group said that many of those victims were either killed during artillery attacks on different refugee camps and Syrian areas or tortured to death in Syrian jails and detention centers.

Several others died under blockade, especially in al-Yarmouk refugee camp, as a result of starvation and absence of medical care or during bombing incidents, and some others drowned in the Mediterranean as they were trying to reach Europe.

4 jan 2015
Erdogan lifts his family from the harsh life in Miyah wa Miyah
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The Turkish courage in supporting the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the massacre committed by the Israeli navy on the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara motivated the Palestinian refugee Muhammad Shana'a to name his son after the then Turkish Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Back then, Shana'a didn't know that this child will cause a drastic change in his family's harsh life in the Lebanese refugee camps.

Erdogan's visit to Saida in 2010 to sponsor the opening of the Turkish Hospital was a golden opportunity for Shana'a to meet the distinguished guest.
 
After 4 years of that meeting, Shana'a learned that his son "Recep Tayyip Erdogan" and then his five siblings, his father and mother were granted the Turkish nationality, giving them the chance to start a whole new life that would compensate them for the life of poverty and suffering they lived in the refugee camps. Shana'a lives in a small house that lacks the minimum necessities of life in al Miyah wa Miyah camp.

"After I named my son, I said that one day the great president Erdogan will carry him, and after about a month I came to know that he will visit Saida to open the Turkish Hospital so I prepared myself to attend the opening to see him even if from afar," Shana'a said.
 
Surprisingly, Shana'a received a phone call from Lebanese MP Bahia al-Hariri asking him about his son and his address and he was taken to the inauguration ceremony, and in a historic moment that changed the life of the displaced family, Erdogan, then Prime Minister, carried Erdogan, the Palestinian child, kissed him, promised the family to offer help and asked for their identification papers.
 
After a short period of communicating with the Turkish President via different means, Shana'a received a phone call from the Turkish Embassy telling him that the whole family has been granted the Turkish nationality.
 
The Turkish flag is rising on the small Palestinian house and photos of the Turkish President are hanging on its walls including the historic photo of him carrying and kissing the child.
 
The Palestinian refugee gratefully thanked the Turkish President saying: "despite his many preoccupations, Erdogan has never forgotten us, al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem or Gaza". Shana'a believes that the Turkish nationality will change his whole life because, according to him, carrying the nationality of such a great country will allow him to travel freely and enjoy his full rights.

3 jan 2015
Six Palestinian refugees arrested in Syria
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The Syrian regime forces arrested last Wednesday six Palestinian refugees at a makeshift checkpoint in Khan Sheikh refugee camp in Damascus, the Working Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria revealed in a statement on Friday night.

Another Palestinian youth, from Khan Sheikh camp, has been missing for two weeks. No information is available about his whereabouts.

Eyewitnesses said that the camp was subjected to fierce bombing by the Syrian regime forces which led to a state of panic among the refugees who are already suffering from very difficult living conditions.

Tight security measures were imposed at the entry to the refugee camp, where many vehicle carrying material supplies were searched and prevented from having access into it.

Things are not better in Yarmouk refugee camp as nearly 20 thousand Palestinian refugees are still subjected to tight siege for more than 545 consecutive days.

The working group said that 158 Palestinians were starved to death in 2014 in Yarmouk camp.

Since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, 2596 Palestinians were killed including 157 women.

283 refugees died under torture, 268 refugees were killed by sniper fire, while 84 refugees were executed and 984 refugees were killed during continued shelling, according to the group.

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