{"id":93753,"date":"2022-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13394\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T21:00:00","slug":"13394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13394","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Refugee Youths in\/from Syria Caught Between Hammer and Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian refugee youths continue to struggle with the devastating impact of the ten-year warfare in Syria, amidst a deadly pandemic outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n

The war has resulted in increasing rates of juvenile delinquency, unemployment, and psychological disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have also increasingly emerged in displacement camps set up for Palestinian refugees in Syria<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, the conflict has exposed the weak infrastructure and poor education and healthcare systems in Palestinian refugee camps in Syria.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Available data by UNRWA indicates that 32 UNRWA facilities have been reduced to rubble in Yarmouk Camp alone, including 16 schools, in the Syrian conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several other UNRWA facilities were destroyed in the Syrian warfare and others have gone out of operation, including clinics, vocational training centres, and dozens of schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon more that one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after the outburst of the deadly warfare, the Syrian government forced Palestinian refugees aged 18 and above to join affiliated militias for periods of at least one year and a half.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who refuse conscription are subjected to crackdowns, abductions and even executions. As a result, thousands fled the tension-stricken country in the hunt for a safer shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n

A researcher told AGPS that a surge in violence and divorce rates has also been recorded among PRS due to the trauma wrought by years of displacement, destruction, bloodshed, and hardship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palestinian refugee youths continue to struggle with the devastating impact of the ten-year warfare in Syria, amidst a deadly pandemic outbreak. The war has resulted in increasing rates of juvenile delinquency, unemployment, and psychological disorders. Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have also increasingly emerged in displacement camps set up for Palestinian refugees in Syria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67799,"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-93753","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\/93753","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=93753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}