Syria – Action Group
The human rights report issued by the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, titled “The Painful Harvest,” revealed the disappearance of more than 5,370 Palestinian detainees in Syrian regime prisons by the end of 2024, representing 72% of the total number of Palestinian detainees in the country. According to the report, males constitute the largest percentage of victims, with 5,177 detainees (96.4%) compared to 193 females (3.6%), while approximately 80% of the disappeared come from Palestinian refugee camps.
*Geographical Distribution of the Disappeared:*
Data showed that the Damascus countryside topped the governorates in terms of the number of enforced disappearances, followed by Damascus, then Aleppo and Homs. At the camp level, Yarmouk Camp ranked first with 1,182 cases of disappearance, followed by Khan al-Shih Camp (471 cases), then al-Aedin Camp in Homs (340 cases).
*Prolonged suffering for more than a decade*
The report confirmed that thousands of families have remained unaware of the fate of their relatives for many years, some for more than ten years, in the absence of any official channels for inquiry or legal support, in addition to the lack of psychological and social care for these families.
*Urgent Human Rights Demands*
The report conveyed distress calls from the families of the disappeared, demanding:
* the immediate disclosure of the fate of their relatives;
* allowing the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit prisons;
* holding those responsible for crimes of enforced disappearance accountable;
* and providing compensation to the families of the victims.
The group called on the international community to take urgent action to confront what it described as “one of the largest crimes of enforced disappearance in modern times.”
To view the full report, click herehttps://actionpal.org.uk/ar/reports/special/statistics_report.pdf