Afrinpost
The Civil Documentation Center for Palestinian Refugees in the Northern Syria said that the number of Palestinian refugees in north Syria is approximately 7500 refugees, who were displaced from the camps of Daraa, Homs, Aleppo and Yarmouk.
The director of the center, Abu Muhannad, stated that the Palestinian families are distributed as follows: 1400 – 1500 families in the Syrian north: 150 in the city of Azaz, 400 in Idlib, 120 in al-Bab, and about 300 in the village of Deir Ballut, in addition to 200 in the city of Afrin.
He added: “Some international and Turkish associations supervise a number of refugee camps, such as the Deir Ballut and Muhammadiyah camps in the (olive branch / occupied Afrin) and are supervised by the Turkish Aid Organization and a number of other international organizations.”
He pointed out that these people provide them with water tanks, food emergency baskets, cooking tools, fabrics, clothes and greenhouses for heating … and others, while the “Turkish Crescent” association oversees the Al-Bal-Friendship Camp, which is located in the (Euphrates Shield) area.
The Civil Documentation Center for Palestinian Refugees in Northern Syria provides its services to Palestinian refugees living in areas occupied by Turkey in the border strip that extends from Jarablus to the occupied Kurdish Afrin region, in terms of securing identification documents, obtaining registration, and registering marriage and other special contracts.
The so-called “Abu Muhannad” indicates that as a result of the fierce fighting in the east of Idlib, “most Palestinian families resort to displacement towards the city of Afrin.” He added: These areas are considered rural, which means a housing crisis, due to the lack of buildings and buildings that can accommodate the large numbers of refugees Noting: Every house in Afrin hosts about 3 or 4 families.
However, while other families are building random camps or living in tents in light of the great temperature drop, this is without mentioning that there is no electricity and that the lighting is provided by batteries or lamps, while unemployment reaches 85% among the Palestinian refugees. Stressing that life in the refugee camps in northern Syria is “primitive.”
In turn, the Palestinian settler, Faris Ahmed, explained that he did not live in the Palestinian Nakba in 48, but he had to live in a second catastrophe; .
He stated that he left the Yarmouk camp in May 2018 to the north of Syria, and he knows very well that it will not be short, and that the security and safety that the Palestinian refugees knew in Syria will not return to what they were, “even soon until this moment.”
He told the site, “Quds Press,” that “all we wish as Palestinian refugees in north Syria is to find a fundamental solution to our catastrophe.” We demand the international community to transfer us to safe camps in Turkey, or to return us to our country Palestine. ”At a time when the Turkish occupation leader claims that he is more Palestinian than the Palestinians, and gives himself the right to refuse to establish a Palestinian state within what is known as the century deal, which may find a solution for the Palestinians , But he is not satisfied that their case be solved in order to continue trading it.
The Turkish occupation had set up several camps on border areas between Afrin and Turkey, as in the village of “Sorkeh” of Raju district, and camps near the villages of “Deir Ballut” and “Muhammadiyah”, and another near the city of Jenderes, as part of his plans to establish a Turkmen-Muslim Bdotherhood belt along the Afrin border with Turkey, to resettle its tools there.
The Turkish occupation changed the demography of the Kurdish region of Afrin, where Erdogan spoke before the invasion began in his speeches that the percentage of Kurds in Afrin equals 35% of the population, knowing that their historical percentage exceeds 98%.
Turkey has implemented demographic change by introducing the families of the Islamic militias that follow the Muslim Brotherhood organization, in addition to attracting Turkmen from areas in Homs countryside and Lattakia countryside in order to resettle them in Afrin, where Turkey seeks to exploit the Turkmen component to strike the Kurds in northern Syria, as it previously supported them Facing the forces of the regime, until most of them became wanted by it.
On May 7, 2018, activists had reported news of the recruitment of more settlers from the areas of (Babila and Beit Sahem Yelda) in Damascus countryside to the city center of Afrin and the Muhammadiyah camp in Jindiris countryside, while the media promoted that they had been transferred to “Al-Bab” in “Euphrates Shield” areas, while about 600 families from the settlement of southern Damascus, including 325 Palestinian families, settle in the Deir Ballut camp in the Afrin countryside.
