DAMASCUS (PIC)– A five-year-old Palestinian child suffered moderate burns when a fire broke out in one of the tents in the Walid refugee camp pitched on the Iraqi-Syrian borders on Friday then extended to reach her family’s tent eyewitnesses told PIC.
The refugee camp which accommodates around 1160 Palestinians fleeing persecution in Iraq was the victim of a number of natural disasters over the past few months including tornados floods and fires that left a number of them hurt.
The refugees live under harsh conditions in the middle of sizzling heat in summer and very cold weather in winter in the absence of the simplest human or health conditions. Moreover armed militias attack those refugees every now and then.
Thousands of Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been seeking any means to flee that country since its occupation by American forces in 2003. Since that date they have become the favorite target of armed militias in addition to the American occupation forces. However the borders remained closed before them as hundreds had to remain in camps on common borders with Syria and Jordan pending a solution to their ordeal.
