Sunday 2 August 2009

Palestinian refugees in Tanaf stage sit-in demanding immediate evacuation


Palestinian refugees in Tanaf stage sit-in demanding immediate evacuation

[ 02/08/2009 - 09:15 AM ]

BAGHDAD, (PIC)-- Palestinian refugees in Iraq taking refuge in Tanaf refugee camp on the Iraqi-Syrian borders on Saturday staged a sit-in before the UNRWA tent demanding their immediate evacuation from the desert camp.

The 168 refugees asked for immediate mechanism by which they could be transferred from the desert to Italy that announced readiness to accommodate them.

The protestors, who included men, women and children, handed the UNRWA representative a protest note, asking for an immediate end to their tragedy that has been ongoing in the open desert for years.

They said that their sit-in would continue until their demands were met, adding that escalatory steps would be adopted in the event those demands remained unrealized.

Hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Iraq had fled their homes in the wake of the American occupation of Iraq after sectarian militias and the American occupation forces detained and tortured many of them leading to the death of tens of refugees.

747 refugees reside in Tanaf while 1549 live in Al-Walid refugee camp and 331 in Al-Hawl camp in the Syrian city of Hasaka.

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