More Palestinians flee Iraq for refugee camps on Iraq-Syria border

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Date: 08 / 07 / 2007 Time: 14:12

Gaza - Ma'an -

An additional group of Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been forced to flee to Al-Walid refugee camp near the Syrian border with Iraq.

The number of refugees in Al-Walid camp has now risen to 1,124. There are 330 more refugees in Tanaf camp, also located on the Syrian border, in addition to 420 refugees in Hasaka refugee camp inside Syria.

The number of Palestinian refuges fleeing Iraq is expected to rise even more in light of the latest incursions, arrests and shelling against their residential areas in Iraq.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the main host countries of Syria and Jordan have an estimated 2 million Iraqi refugees between them, and they are struggling to cope. Syria continues to receive about 2,000 Iraqis a day and about 30,000 a month end up staying, UNHCR says.

"The growing refugee population and the communities that host them are facing enormous hardships that will only get worse if the international community doesn't put its money where its mouth is," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told reporters in Geneva on Friday.

Two Palestinians kidnapped in Baghdad, mortar shell blasts in compound

[ 08/07/2007 - 08:58 AM ]

BAGHDAD, (PIC)--

Militias of the Iraqi interior ministry on Saturday kidnapped two Palestinian refugees in the Baladiyat residential complex for Palestinians in Baghdad after a mortar shell blasted inside the compound.

Palestinian sources in Iraq said that the mortar shell inflicted material damage but no casualties were reported.

They said that Fares Al-Batta and Bashar Al-Hardan were kidnapped at the hands of those militias who also stole a car at the pretext of confiscating it till its owner appears.

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