{"id":91348,"date":"2021-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11978\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:00:00","slug":"11978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11978","title":{"rendered":"Lazzarini: Palestinian Refugees in Syria Living on One Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNRWA’s Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned that in\u201d\u00afSyria, 10\u201d\u00afyears of conflict have left the country and its Palestine refugee community shattered.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany Palestine refugees in Syria report living on one meal a day\u201d\u009d, Lazzarini told the Virtual Advisory Commission. \u201cOver 90 per cent of them are under the poverty line\u201d\u009d.\u201d\u00af\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Lebanon,\u201d\u00afover\u201d\u00af50 per cent of the population lives under the poverty line,\u201d\u00afincluding almost all\u201d\u00afPalestine refugees,\u201d\u00afwho were already\u201d\u00afamong the most marginalized communities in the country.\u201d\u00afEven access to daily commodities and services have become a struggle for almost everyone in Lebanon. Palestine refugees in camps are so desperate that I called Lebanon an internal emergency on my last visit there in April\u201d\u009d, he warned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lazzarini added that Jordan suffers the ripple effect of events in the West Bank and the long-term impact of the war in Syria, in addition to its own challenges. Palestine refugees, especially those from Syria, face immense economic hardship and only have UNRWA to turn to.\u201d\u00af\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

COVID-19\u201d\u00afand its socio-economic impact remain\u201d\u00afrife, as vaccination coverage remains low\u201d\u00afin the region. \u201d\u00afHost countries urgently need\u201d\u00afmore vaccines to\u201d\u00afprevent further waves of infections and for the economies to recover.\u201d\u00af\u201d\u00af\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile\u201d\u00afwe might seem to be in a better financial position compared to this time last year, we are not yet financially stable. We continue to live month by month.\u201d\u00afThe return of the United States support has allowed us to reduce the shortfall. In return though, some major regional partners are still absent and other have reduced their contributions this year\u201d\u009d, said Lazzarini.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UNRWA’s chief added that the Agency’s Emergency Appeals for the Syria regional crisis and for the occupied Palestinian territory also remain seriously underfunded at respectively 35 per cent and 62 per cent.\u201d\u00af Funds are urgently needed to sustain food and cash assistance to over two million refugees across the region and continue our protection work in the West Bank.\u201d\u00af\u201d\u00af\u201d\u00af<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNRWA’s Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned that in\u201d\u00afSyria, 10\u201d\u00afyears of conflict have left the country and its Palestine refugee community shattered.\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cMany Palestine refugees in Syria report living on one meal a day\u201d\u009d, Lazzarini told the Virtual Advisory Commission. \u201cOver 90 per cent of them are under the poverty line\u201d\u009d.\u201d\u00af\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cIn Lebanon,\u201d\u00afover\u201d\u00af50 per cent of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}