{"id":93832,"date":"2020-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/9816\/"},"modified":"2020-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:00:00","slug":"9816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/9816","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Refugees Distressed as Greece Announces Construction of 2 Migrant Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Greece said it plans to build two new temporary camps to house hundreds of additional asylum seekers who arrived after a surge enabled by Turkey.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;We want to build two closed centers in (the northern region of) Serres and the greater Athens area with 1,000 places,&#8221; Greek migration minister Notis Mitarachi told Skai TV on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We need the backing of local communities. We cannot leave all (these) people on the islands,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>Mitarachi said the camps would host asylum seekers who arrived after March 1, when Turkey announced it would no longer prevent people from trying to cross into the European Union.<\/div>\n<div>Mitarachi also said state support for refugees would be limited, and that they would be asked to leave camps after securing protected status.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Accommodation and benefits for those granted asylum will be interrupted within a month. From then on, they will have to work for a living. This makes our country a less attractive destination for migration flows,&#8221; the minister said.<\/div>\n<div>Residents of a town in the Serrres region rumored to host one of the camps staged protests earlier this week and local officials declared their opposition to the plan.<\/div>\n<div>Over 1,700 migrants have landed on Lesbos and four other Aegean islands from Turkey over the past week, adding to the 38,000 already crammed into abysmal and overstretched refugee centers.<\/div>\n<div>The new surge has ramped up already high tensions on Lesbos, an island that has been on the migration frontline for years.<\/div>\n<div>Frustration exploded into violence last weekend with mobs setting up roadblocks, attacking cars carrying NGO workers and beating journalists.<\/div>\n<div>Palestinian refugees from Syria continue to risk their lives onboard the \u201cdeath boats\u201dto Greece, rummaging around for a momentary respite from the daily scenes of bloodshed and destruction. AGPS has kept record of the death of dozens of refugees onboard Greece-bound ships. Several others have been arrested by Turkish coast guards.<\/div>\n<div>Activists estimate that around 4,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria are taking cover on such Greek islands as Lesbos, Mytilene, Chios, Leros, and Kos, among other areas.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece said it plans to build two new temporary camps to house hundreds of additional asylum seekers who arrived after a surge enabled by Turkey. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;We want to build two closed centers in (the northern region of) Serres and the greater Athens area with 1,000 places,&#8221; Greek migration minister Notis Mitarachi told Skai TV on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61295,"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-93832","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\/93832","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=93832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}