Baroness Tonge – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-09-17.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of Palestinians amongst refugees fleeing Syria.

Baroness Verma

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) estimates that 80,000 Palestinian refugees have left Syria since the onset of the conflict; 44,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria are confirmed in Lebanon and 15,800 are confirmed in Jordan, with the remainder in Egypt (5,000), Turkey and beyond.