Great security tightening, bad humanitarian conditions, ill-treatment, and degrading media blackout on their suffering, led to reduce the numbers of Palestinian Syrian refugees who are in Cyber ”‹”‹City camp in the province of Ramtha northern Jordan, where recently more than 10 families escaped the camp, which home to about 175 Palestinian families who fled the hell of war in Syria.
This industrial compound that is surrounded by a fence and enhanced with security guarded turned into more like a detention center, since it is subject to the supervision of several Jordanian security services, after it was originally the headquarters for the Asian workers who were employed in the industrial city factories in the city of Irbid before it is closed years ago as a result of successive strikes by workers to protest at poor level housing. This place was opened with donation from its owner to house Palestinian refugees from Syria.
Refugees are distributed on 142 housing units in the five-story building, while visitors are received on a piece of land 50 meters away, the allowed distance for refugees to move away from the residence.
The inhabitants are suffering from bad living conditions; the five-member-family lives in one room and all rooms in each floor have only one kitchen and one bathroom used by all guests.
Restrictions on Palestinian refugees, especially those who hold the Syrian passports forced some of them to commit suicide to escape the miserable life, and in turn, a refugee described the Jordanian authorities’ treatment as “humiliated.”
He added that “We have been treated similarly as criminals since the moment we arrived to Jordan despite the fact that some of us hold a Jordanian passport, but the only problem is that we are Palestinians.”
He adds: “We are in Cyber ”‹”‹City are barred from visiting relatives and forbidden to go out like in Guantánamo.”
It is worth mentioning that the Policy Board, headed by King Abdullah II, made a decision in May 2011 which prevent the entry of Palestinian refugees from Syria to Jordan, where politicians justified this decision being a related to controversy Jordanian identity and fears that Jordan would be alternative homeland for the Palestinians.
The Jordanian government does not hide its opposition to Palestinian entry into its territory where the former Syrian Minister of State for Information Samih Maaytahsaid that “Jordan is not obliged to pay political prices for Syrian crisis.”