-Eight million Syrian refugees displaced internally and externally during the three years conflict.
-One million of which are children are under the age of 7 .
-The UN declares it as the worst crisis in history.
Syrian crsis has reached a critical point with the number of refugees reaching 10 million people , this is a massive number taking into consideration the small sized population which is 16 million .
The united nations has declared the crisis as the worst humanitarian crisis in history , The U.N. estimates there are now approximately 2.7 million Syrians registered in neighboring countries, with more than 700,000 more to register in the coming months.
Figures of refugees in neighboring countries break down as follows:
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Lebanon : more than 1 million Syrian refugees, with many more unaccounted for scattered around the country.
Jordan : 650,000 registered refugee and the number is increasing daily with people escaping the villages on the south of Syria.
Turkey : more than 750,000 registered Syrian refugees. Turkish government has been very hospitable in accommodating them in organized clean camp with play grounds and regular food supply .
The three years old civil war has taken its toll on the Syrian people and their country neighbors , where 4 million have sought asylum .
Poor living conditions and the carelessness of the international community has caused the refugees in camps in Jordan and Lebanon to protest – sometimes violently – in order to make their voice heard.
Tweet: The UN has just opened its second major refugee camp in Jordan. Azraq will be able to host 130,000 Syrians and has taken a year to prepare. — Sakhr Al-Makhadhi (@syrianews) April 30, 2014
Jordan has the second largest refugees camp (Za'atri) in the world where conditions according to a UN source is very challenging and the UN camp administration has announced on its website that they will not be taking any more refugees unless its an exceptional circumstances .
The government has opened a new refugee camp in the north of the country , the new camp is designed to take pressure off alzaatri camp .
A London based journalist , Rami abed criticized regional governments lack of interest and effort : ‘the Jordanian and Lebanese governments don’t wan to know , both prime ministers have asked the UN for financial aid as both Jordanian and Lebanese economies are staggering and can not handle extra pressure’.
“ the UN and syria’s neighboring countries have got a moral and financial responsibility towards these hard pressed refugees’’ he added.
Salah Shamas the director of london based "Central administration charity" which specializes in raising funds for the Syrian crisis said : ‘’In the middle of the fierce fighting and three years after the conflict started , people are still fleeing to safety , there's absolutly no justification for people's suffering caused by a war which you can quite easily describe as a' struggle for power' ” .
“the number will continue to rise and the international community needs to face up with this challenging task , When walking through za’atari camp , the smell of excrement sticks and follows you, the water which is presumably drinkable is dark grey “ . he added
Conditions in these camps are approaching catastrophe and in urgent need of aid, refugees are vulnerable to abuse , in desperate need .
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