| April 10, 2013 |
Syrian refugees update 2013
Another refugee camp
opened today in Mrajeeb al-Fhood, Jordan, to accommodate the reported
1,500 to 2,000 Syrians fleeing to Jordan daily. Just over a year ago the
Big Picture posted an entry
of the growing number of people displaced due to the conflict that now
has lasted over two years. The United Nations recently said a total of
around 7,000 to 8,000 Syrians are leaving their country daily; there are
1.3 million Syrian refugees and almost 4 million more have been
displaced inside Syria since the start of the conflict. Posted here is
another glimpse of daily life for those displaced since the beginning of
this year. -- Lloyd Young ( 37 photos total)
A
Syrian internally displaced boy stands at the window of a tent in the
Bab al-Hawa camp along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian
province of Idlib on March 18. The conflict in Syria between rebel
forces and pro-government troops has killed at least 70,000 people, and
forced more than one million Syrians to seek refuge abroad. (Bulent
Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
Jordanian
police stand guard as Syrian refugees arrive at the new Mrajeeb al-
Fhood refugee camp 20 km east of the city of Zarqa on April 10.The press
spokesman for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Anmar Hmoud, said the camp
which is 250 dunams (61.78 acres) in size and cost seven million dinars
with funding from the United Arab Emirates, will receive up to 100
Syrian refugees daily. He said the number of Syrian refugees in the
kingdom since the outbreak of the crisis in their country, which entered
its third year, reached 483,314 refugees, according to the Jordanian
news agency Petra. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters) #
A
newly-arrived Syrian refugee boy smiles at an Emirati Red Crescent
worker upon his arrival with his family to the new Jordanian-Emirati
refugee camp, Mrajeeb al-Fhood, in Zarqa, Jordan, on April 10. A second
camp for Syrian refugees has opened in Jordan as more Syrians flee the
civil war at home. The Jordanian-Emirati camp is the first funded by the
United Arab Emirates and run by its Red Crescent Society in Jordan to
assist families, single women, the disabled, and elderly. (Mohammad
Hannon/Associated Press) #
A view of the King Abdullah Refugee Camp for Syrian refugees 2
kilometers from the Syrian border on the third day of Prince Charles and
Duchess of Cornwall's visit to the country on March 13 in Amman,
Jordan. The Royal couple are on the first leg of a tour of the Middle
East taking in Qatar, Saudia Arabia and Oman. (Chris Jackson/Getty
Images) #
Syrian
refugee children sit inside their tent at a small refugee camp, in
Ketermaya village southeast of Beirut, Lebanon, on March 14. The number
of registered Syrian refugees jumped 10 percent in just one week to more
than 1.1 million, a U.N. aid official said Thursday as France pushed
for quickly lifting a European Union ban on arming Syrian rebels.
(Hussein Malla/Associated Press) #
A
Syrian internally displaced woman and child are reflected in a puddle
of water in the Bab al-Hawa camp along the Turkish border in the
northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 18. The conflict in
Syria between rebel forces and pro-government troops has killed at least
70,000 people, and forced more than one million Syrians to seek refuge
abroad. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) #
An
internally displaced Syrian refugee child has a hair cut at a makeshift
barber shop at the Azaz refugee camp along the Syrian-Turkish border on
Feb. 19. Some 15,000 refugees, mainly from the northern regions of
Syria are living in this camp with no running water or electricity, in
winter temperature that drop to under zero centigrade at night. (Chris
Huby/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
Syrian refugee woman, holds teapots as she walks past her tent during
the visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR,
chief Antonio Guterres, not seen. at a small refugee camp, in Ketermaya
village southeast of Beirut, Lebanon, on March 14. The number of
registered Syrian refugees jumped 10 percent in just one week to more
than 1.1 million, a U.N. aid official said Thursday as France pushed for
quickly lifting a European Union ban on arming Syrian rebels. (Hussein
Malla/Associated Press) #
Makeshift
shops sell produce in the main thoroughfare as Syrian refugees go about
their daily business in the Za'atari refugee camp on Jan. 30 in
Za'atari, Jordan. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence
and bombings in Syria to cross the borders to safety in northern Jordan
and overwhelming the Za'atari camp. The Jordanian government are
appealing for help with the influx of refugees as they struggle to cope
with the sheer numbers arriving in the country. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
Images) #
Syrian
refugee women, wash their laundry in front of a Turkish military base,
seen in the background, at Atmeh refugee camp in the northern Syrian
province of Idlib, Syria, on Feb. 16. This rebel-controlled camp only
yards from the border with Turkey houses some 16,000 people displaced by
the civil war. But the U.N. and other major aid agencies best equipped
to handle such a large-scale relief agency cannot reach them because
they are inside Syria. That leaves the job to smaller organizations who
can only provide a fraction of the needs. (Hussein Malla/Associated
Press) #
Syrian
refugee women work at a second hand clothes shop at the Al Za'atri
refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq near the border with Syria
on March 6. UNHCR said the number of Syrians leaving their country has
increased dramatically since the beginning of the year with more than
400,000, nearly half the total, leaving since Jan. 1. Most have fled to
Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt and some to North Africa and
Europe, arriving traumatized, without possessions and having lost
relatives. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters) #
A
Syrian refugee walks away after filling containers with clean water in
the village of Kfarkahel, in the Koura district close to the northern
city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Jan. 9 as stormy weather sparked widespread
flooding, prompting chaos on the roads and a nationwide school closure
for the next two days. The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is
already totaling 156,000, according to U.N. figures, and 200,000
according to the Lebanese government estimates. (Ibrahim
Chalhou/AFP/Getty Images) #
Muddy
boots belonging to Syrian refugees are seen at the entrance of a tent
in a refugee camp near Azaz, north of Aleppo province, Syria, on Feb 18.
According to some Syrian activists, after the increase in air strikes,
the number of displaced people in the refugee camp of Azaz has grown in
the last weeks of 6000 to 9000. (Manu Brabo/Associated Press) #
A
Syrian refugee removes water and mud around his tent, at Zaatari Syrian
refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, on Jan. 8.
Syrian refugees in a Jordanian camp attacked aid workers with sticks and
stones on Tuesday, frustrated after cold, howling winds swept away
their tents and torrential rains flooded muddy streets overnight. Police
said seven aid workers were injured. (Mohammad Hannon/Associated Press)
#
Newly
arrived Syrian refugees wait for their turn to receive a mattress,
blankets and other supplies, and to be assigned to tents, at the Zaatari
Syrian refugees camp in Mafraq, near the Syrian border with Jordan on
Jan. 28. Jordan has set up a security cordon around a sprawling Syrian
refugee camp in the country's north in an effort to curb rising crime
and lawlessness among its residents, a Jordanian official said.
(Mohammad Hannon/Associated Press) #
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres (4th right) is
welcomed into Syrian tent during his visit to the Nizip refugee camp in
Gaziantep on March 10. The number of Syrian refugees, already past the
million mark, could double or triple by the end of the year if no
solution is found to the conflict, Guterres said. (Veli Gurgah/AFP/Getty
Images) #
A
Syrian family who fled their home from Aleppo register, at the UNHCR
center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on March 6. The number
of Syrians who have fled their war-ravaged country and are seeking
assistance has now topped the one million mark, the United Nations
refugee agency said Wednesday warning that Syria is heading towards a
"full-scale disaster." (Bilal Hussein/Associated Press) #
Valerie
Amos, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
OCHA, greets Syrian refugee children at a school during her visit to a
Syrian refugee camp in Kilis, near the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkey, on
March 13. (Orhan Cicek/Anadolu Agency via Associated Press) #
Jordanian
firefighters and Syrian refugees extinguish a fire at the Al Zaatari
Syrian refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border
with Syria on March 8. The fire, caused by gas, did not result in any
death or injuries, but damaged some 35 tents at the camp. (Muhammad
Hamed/Reuters) #
A
newly arrived Syrian refugee receives aid and rations at Al Zaatri
refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria
on Jan. 25. The United Nations on Friday urged Syria's neighbors to
keep open their borders to civilians fleeing the intensifying conflict
and said that the refugee exodus into Jordan was "absolutely dramatic".
More than 30,000 Syrians have arrived in Jordan's main Zaatri camp this
year, including 4,400 on Thursday and another 2,000 overnight, it said.
Most were fleeing fighting in the southern area of Deraa, food and fuel
shortages and high prices. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters) #
Syrian
children cry inside a tent at a refugee camp in the city of Tyre, in
southern Lebanon on Jan. 31. The United Nations said on April 9 it will
halt food aid to 400,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon next month unless it
receives urgent new funding. The cash shortage is part of a wider
financial shortfall that the organization says is threatening its
efforts to help nearly 1.3 million Syrian refugees and almost 4 million
more people displaced inside Syria by the two-year conflict. (Ali
Hashisho/Reuters) #
A
Syrian refugee watches a television broadcast of Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad speaking in Damascus, in their container at the
Al-Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border
with Syria on Jan. 6. Assad made his first public appearance in months
on Sunday, calling for a "full national mobilization" to fight against
rebels he described as al Qaeda terrorists. (Majed Jaber/Reuters) #
A
Syrian refugee stands on top of a water tank at the Zaatari refugee
camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, on Jan 9. Tens of
thousands of Syrians are flowing into Jordan a month, many with no money
and resources. A significant number of women in the Zaatari camp, which
houses some 120,000 refugees, fled with their children but not their
husbands and have little or no source of income. (Mohammad
Hannon/Associated Press) #
More links and information
Syrian refugees - Big Picture Post 2012
Syria — Uprising and Civil War - NYTimes.com
Syria - Wikipedia entry
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