{"id":94031,"date":"2022-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/12887\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:00:00","slug":"12887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/12887","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Refugees in Syria Overburdened by Surging Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

The impact of price inflation has been greatest in places like Syria. Food and non-food prices have soared by 40%.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with the pro-regime AlWatan daily, head of the Association of Consumer Protection said contacts held with Jordan and Algeria reveal that price inflation in Syria is incomparable.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said prices of food items and vital goods are expected to go through a 50% leap in the next few days.<\/span><\/p>\n

The protracted consequences of the Syria crisis, coupled with the socio-economic deterioration and the impacts of COVID-19, continue to pose grave humanitarian challenges to Palestine refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the overall reduction in hostilities, insecurity continues to affect the Palestine refugee community in Syria. This situation has not improved in 2022.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to UNRWA estimates, around 40 per cent of the Palestine refugee population in Syria remain in protracted displacement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deteriorating Syrian economy and rising inflation is giving rise to a real threat of hunger. A drastic loss of purchasing power has increased fears amongst the population, including Palestine refugees, about their ability to meet their basic needs, in particular food.<\/span><\/p>\n

An UNRWA survey found that 82 per cent of the refugees interviewed now live on less than US$ 1.9 a day and that 48 per cent of total household expenditure was spent on food, indicating severe distress within families.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The impact of price inflation has been greatest in places like Syria. Food and non-food prices have soared by 40%. In an interview with the pro-regime AlWatan daily, head of the Association of Consumer Protection said contacts held with Jordan and Algeria reveal that price inflation in Syria is incomparable. He said prices of food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66863,"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-94031","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\/94031","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=94031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}