EU increases its emergency aid in Yarmouk, Syria

EU News 93/2015

Brussels, 07 April 2015
IP/15/4743

The European Union is providing emergency funding of €2.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), to deliver life-saving assistance to Palestinian refugees in Syria through cash and emergency relief items.

With intense fighting in the Yarmouk refugee camp, near Damascus, the humanitarian situation is dramatically deteriorating for 18000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians in the camp. Thousands remain trapped receiving little to no humanitarian assistance.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4743_en.htm?locale=en

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