Syria: Refugees
(asked on 17th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of refugees from Syria who are Palestinian in origin.
This question was answered on 31st October 2016
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) estimates that 110,000 Palestinian refugees have fled Syria since the onset of the conflict; 42,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria are estimated to be in Lebanon and 17,000 in Jordan, with the remainder in Egypt, Turkey and Europe.