GAZA (PIC)– The PA government extended urgent assistance to the Palestinian refugees who fled persecution in Iraq and who were trapped on the Iraqi-Syrian borders.
Hussam Al-Ahmed the director of coordination and follow up at the ministry of refugees’ affairs said in a statement on Monday that the assistance to the Walid refugee camp included foodstuff tents blankets medicine and water gallons.
The government is also scheduled to send mobile toilets water tanks and electric wires to link the camp to electricity generation stations after months of suffering without electricity Ahmed said adding that his government was continuing its diplomatic efforts to alleviate the suffering of those refugees.
He noted that more than 400 Palestinians were residing in that camp under harsh living conditions noting that Syria did not allow their entry into its territory while international organizations could not reach them to provide them with basic goods food water and medicine.
The PA official said that the tragic conditions in Iraq were pushing those refugees to flee for their lives and head to the Walid camp noting that three camps were pitched on the Syrian and Jordanian borders with Iraq.
Ahmed asked both the Syrian and Jordanian governments to allow entry of those refugees into their lands in view of their great suffering.
