Syria is considered the world’s largest displacement crisis, with more than 14 million people driven from their homes. This figure includes 7.2 million internally displaced persons and 6.8 million refugees, of whom 5.5 million live in neighboring countries.
The victory of the Islamo-jihadist alliance and the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime Syria A scenario of political uncertainty is emerging that also extends to the social sphere and is closely watched by the 6.8 million Syrians who are currently refugees, victims of an exodus that escalated in 2011 at the beginning of the war that unleashed after the Arab Spring protests.
The EITB correspondent in the area, Mikel Ayestaranhas confirmed that thousands of refugees are already returning to Syria. At Masnaa (Syria-Lebanon border), Ayestaran witnesses the incessant traffic at that point.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandihas warned that Syria now faces “a crossroads between peace and war, between freedom and anarchy, between prosperity and misery.” For refugees, this dual path involves separating ‘repatriation’ from ‘continuation of exile’.
“Everything depends on a peaceful transition, which respects the lives and aspirations of all Syrians,” stressed Grandi, who shares a similar concern with other senior UN officials and humanitarian organizations working on the ground.
Syria is considered the world’s largest displacement crisis more than 14 million people outside their homes. The figure includes 7.2 million internally displaced persons and 6.8 million refugees, of which 5.5 million live in neighboring countries —Turkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt–.
Germany It is the non-contiguous country hosting the most Syrian refugees, with more than 850,000, even as the future of new applications is up in the air. A spokesperson for the German Migration and Refugees Agency confirmed to the DPA news agency that they will halt the study of pending petitions after the fall of Al Assad.
UNHCR always makes any return of refugees conditional on this voluntary and safesomething that doesn’t seem clear for now. The battle for control of some parts of Syria continues and around 70% of the population requires humanitarian assistance in a country where nine out of ten people live below the poverty line.
Moreover, not all refugees fit into a pattern. Only 5% live in refugee camps, while 92% choose rural or urban settlements where conditions are not always easy. In fact, UNHCR estimates that more than 70% of Syrian refugees are poor.
Source: EITB
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