Most of Syria’s schools have been destroyed or put out of operation in the raging warfare imperiling the education of the Palestinians in Syria the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) reported Tuesday.
According to AGPS the Syrian warfare has contributed to a sharp nosedive in the rates of access to education estimated at 75% in 2015 down from 95% prior to the conflict.
Violence has left only 42 out of 118 schools operational. Other students are being educated at 43 government schools UNRWA added.
Concerns over abrupt abduction sweeps torture and enforced military conscription have led to a dramatic increase in school dropouts and children’s access to education.
According to UNRWA several Palestinian students dropped out of school as they sought livelihoods to help feeding and sheltering their impoverished families.
Meanwhile 108 Palestinian refugees were executed since the outburst of the Syrian warfare 89 among whom were subjected to field executions according to AGPS statistics until Tuesday February 27.
The list of executed Palestinians included 17 conscripts at the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) who were kidnapped in mid 2012 on their way back to al-Neirab refugee camp in Aleppo from a military site in Syria’s northwestern city of Masyaf. The 17 fighters were reportedly killed by the Syrian government forces one month after their abduction.
AGPS found out that most of the executions were carried out by the different warring forces in Syria including the regime troops and their war abettors along with the opposition battalions al-Nusra brigades and ISIS militias.
The overall death toll among the Palestinians of Syria has hit 3452 among whom women children toddlers and elderly refugees.
