RCA provides emergency aid to Palestinian refugees in Syria...

Abu Dhabi:Emergency humanitarian aid worth more than Dh2.8 million to help Palestinian refugees in Syria will be provided by the UAE’s Red Crescent Authority (RCA) in coordination with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

The relief aid will be procured from local Syrian markets by the UAE major humanitarian agency whose Syria operation contributes to UNRWA’s efforts to help more than 1,26,000 crisis-hit Palestinians in and outside Syria.

Last March, UNRWA estimated that about 400,000 Palestinian refugees were in need of emergency humanitarian assistance and that more than 12,000 Palestine refugees were displaced from refugee camps in Syria to neighbouring countries. Most of the Palestinian refugees of Yarmouk Palestinian Camp in Damascus were displaced by the on-going violence.

Responding to UNRWA’s appeals, RCA provided emergency food aid to Palestinians in refugee camps in Damascus and Aleppo and in make-shift shelters set up by the international agency at its schools in Syria.

(GULFNews.com)