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In August 2012, the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR) reported that the number of registered Syrian refugees had reached over 200,000, exceeding the UNHCR estimate of 185,000 for the entire year.<ref name=24-8-BBC-Refugees/> Also according to the United Nations, 6 million people inside Syria needed help and about 4 million Syrians were [[internally displaced people|internally displaced]] because of the Syrian civil war.<ref name=24-8-BBC-Refugees>{{cite news|title=Syria crisis: Number of refugees rises to 200,000|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19370506|accessdate=24 August 2012|date=24 August 2012|agency=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Memmott|first=Mark|title=Fighting Has Forced More Than 1.5 Million Syrians To Move, U.N. Says|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/10/158553289/fighting-has-forced-more-than-1-5-million-syrians-to-move-u-n-says|accessdate=13 August 2012|newspaper=NPR|date=10 August 2012}}</ref>
In August 2012, the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR) reported that the number of registered Syrian refugees had reached over 200,000, exceeding the UNHCR estimate of 185,000 for the entire year.<ref name=24-8-BBC-Refugees/> Also according to the United Nations, 6 million people inside Syria needed help and about 4 million Syrians were [[internally displaced people|internally displaced]] because of the Syrian civil war.<ref name=24-8-BBC-Refugees>{{cite news|title=Syria crisis: Number of refugees rises to 200,000|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19370506|accessdate=24 August 2012|date=24 August 2012|agency=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Memmott|first=Mark|title=Fighting Has Forced More Than 1.5 Million Syrians To Move, U.N. Says|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/10/158553289/fighting-has-forced-more-than-1-5-million-syrians-to-move-u-n-says|accessdate=13 August 2012|newspaper=NPR|date=10 August 2012}}</ref>


In February 2013, seven Syrian rebels were hospitalized and treated at the Ziv Medical Center in [[Safed]], [[Israel]].<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4345807,00.html Syrians undergo surgery at Safed hospital]</ref>
In February 2013, seven Syrian rebels were hospitalized and treated at the Ziv Medical Center in [[Safed]], [[Israel]]. Injured in clashes with the Syrian army, they made their way to the border in the northern Golan Heights and were transferred to the hospital via military ambulances.<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4345807,00.html Syrians undergo surgery at Safed hospital]</ref>


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 18:55, 17 February 2013

Refugees of the Syrian civil war
Total population: 612,847 estimated[1] (Jan 2013)

508,454 registered by UNHCR[1](Jan 2013)

Regions with significant populations
(Numbers don't include foreign citizens, who fled Syria)
 Jordan 176,569 estimated[1] (Jan 2013)

128,628 registered[1] (Jan 2013)

 Lebanon 192,045 estimated[1] (Jan 2013)

137,065 registered[1] (Jan 2013)

 Turkey 150,906 registered[1] (Jan 2013)
 Egypt 150,000 estimated[2] (Oct 2012)

13,292 registered[1] (Jan 2013)

 Iraqi Kurdistan 70,000 estimated[3](Jan 2013)
54,550 registered[4](Dec 2012)
 Algeria 25,000 estimated (Aug 2012)
 Iraq 8,852 registered[4] (Dec 2012)
 Armenia 3,248 applied for visas (July 2012)
 Israel 7 Refugees
Language: Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, Syriac, Armenian
Religion: Sunni Islam, Christianity

Refugees of the Syrian civil war or Syrian refugees are Syrian nationals, who have fled Syria with the escalation of the Syrian civil war.[5]

To escape the violence, tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the country to neighboring Jordan,[6] Lebanon, Turkey,[7][8] Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.[9]

In August 2012, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that the number of registered Syrian refugees had reached over 200,000, exceeding the UNHCR estimate of 185,000 for the entire year.[10] Also according to the United Nations, 6 million people inside Syria needed help and about 4 million Syrians were internally displaced because of the Syrian civil war.[10][11]

In February 2013, seven Syrian rebels were hospitalized and treated at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel. Injured in clashes with the Syrian army, they made their way to the border in the northern Golan Heights and were transferred to the hospital via military ambulances.[12]

History

The Syrian refugee problem began in April 2011, when the Syrian government used lethal force to crackdown on antigovernment protests. [citation needed] The flow of refugees intensified with the military siege of Talkalakh in May and the military siege of Jisr al-Shughour in Idlib province in June. As a result of these military actions, [citation needed] thousands of Syrian citizens fled across the border to Lebanon and Turkey. By early July 2011, 15,000 Syrian citizens had taken shelter in tent cities, set up in the Yayladağı, Reyhanlı and Altınözü districts of Hatay Province, near Turkey’s border with Syria. By the end of the month, 5,000 of the refugees had returned to Syria.[13] By late June 2011, The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon had reached around 10,000 people. [citation needed] By mid July 2011, the first Syrian refugees found sanctuary in Jordan, with numbers reaching 1,500 by December.[14][15]

In early 2012, the number of Syrian refugees swelled to some 20,000 UNHCR registered refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, with possibly 10,000 more being unregistered.[citation needed] In the April 2012 offensive by the Syrian Army, which preceded the expected ceasefire on 10 April of the Kofi Annan peace plan, the flow of refugees into Turkey reached a peak, with as many as 2,300 refugees entering on 4 April and 2,800 refugees entering on 5 April.[16] The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey reached 23,835 by 6 April.[16] In Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu demanded Assad keep his promise to cease military operations, while demanding action by the international community and the UN if more refugees came.[16][17][18][19]

Spring 2011

Number and location of people fleeing the violence in Syria, 13 June 2012.

By 3 May, the number of Syrians, crossing the Turkish border was estimated at 300 people.[20] Turkish President, Abdullah Gül, said that Turkey had prepared for “a worst case scenario”, in an apparent reference to a possible influx of large numbers of refugees from Syria.[20] He also referred to the fact that Turkey had already set up a small camp in southern Hatay Province for 263 Syrians who had fled their country on 29 April .[20]

By mid May, some 700 of Tel Kalakh residents had fled across the border, to the northern Lebanese village of Mkaybleh.[21] According to Sheikh Abdullah, a prominent religious figure in the village of Wadi Khaled in northern Lebanon, by mid May the village had received more than 1,350 refugees from Syria over a period of 10 days, most of them women and children.[22] More were expected to arrive.

On 14 May, Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said that the refugee flow into Lebanon had been fairly small at around 1,000 people.[21] She also said the number of Syrians who had crossed the border into Turkey was also small at about 250.[21]

June 2011

With the siege of Jisr al-Shughour, the situation on the Turkish-Syrian border deteriorated, as Jisr al-Shughour, home to 41,000 people, became largely an abandoned town, in expectation of a Syrian Army attack.[23] Initially The Guardian reported that officials in southern Turkey said that about 2,500 Syrians, many from Jisr al-Shughour, had crossed the border.[23] However, the number of refugees, housed in refugee camps across the Turkish-Syrian border exceeded 10,000 people by mid June according to other sources.[24][25][26]

By mid June, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon was estimated by human rights associations at 8,500,[27] with the main concentrations in the Akkar and Tripoli areas,[27] and the total number of Syrian refugees in all surrounding countries surpassing more than 20,000 people. As Syrian troops amassed by the Turkish border, the flow rate further increased by hundreds of refugees a day by 23 June,[28] reaching a total of 11,700 Syrian citizens, housed in refugee camps across the Turkish border.[29]

July 2011

Syrian refugee center on the Turkish border 50 miles from Aleppo, Syria (3 August 2012).

According to official numbers by early July, 15,228 Syrians had sought refuge in Turkey, as a result of tension caused by the Syrian civil war and a crackdown on protests by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s administration.[13] More than 5,000 of them had returned on their own to Syria, therefore leaving around 10,227 Syrian refugees in Turkey.[13]

August 2011

The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon reached 2,600 by the end of August, with thousands more residing in Lebanon illegally.[30] According to UNHCR, some 120 Syrian refugees crossed into Lebanon on 29 August.[31] According to Al-Arabiya, some 2,500 Syrians resided in the Wadi Khaled area, down from 5,500 Syrians who were there in May.[32] Most of the Syrian refugees in the area were Arabs and Bedouins.[32] A humanitarian aid campaign was launched by "Baitulmaal" nicknamed the "Syrian Refugee Relief".[33]

September 2011

By September, the estimates for Syrian refugees in Lebanon rose to around 4,000 registered, with possibly as many as 6,000 in total residing there.[34] Despite the return of many Syrians back to Syria between July and August, in early September Turkey began setting up six refugee camps for Syrian refugees, who fled from Syria in June - some 6,000 out of initial 15,000 remained in Turkey.[35]

November 2011

In November, it was reported that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stood at 7,600.[36]

December 2011

In December, the number of registered Syrian refugees had reached almost 5,000 in Lebanon.[37] By mid-December, the number of Syrian refugees in Jordan was around 1,500 registered and possibly thousands more unregistered.[15] By the end of 2011, it was reported that thousands of Syrian refugees had found shelter in Libya.[38]

2012

January 2012

Syrian refugee center on the Turkish border 50 miles from Aleppo, Syria (3 August 2012).

On January 14, 2012, it was announced by the UNHCR that the number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon had reached 5,238.[39] There were almost 1,000 families registered as refugees.[39] Some 200 Syrians registered within a single week prior to the announcement.[39] By late January, 6,375 registered Syrian refugees were reported in Lebanon.[40]

Also in January, Israeli Chief of Staff announced preparations by the Israeli Army for Alawite Syrian refugees in the occupied Golan Heights, in case the Syrian government collapsed[41] The plans were said not to be concrete, but related to a hypothetical situation, if Syria's current government was overthrown and the Alawites had to flee.

February 2012

In early February 2012, Jordan announced it would open a refugee camp in the country for Syrian refugees fleeing the escalating violence in Syria.[42] There were an estimated 3,000 registered Syrian refugees in Jordan.[40] The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey was around 9,700.[40]

March 2012

Following the February fighting in Homs and the escalating assault of Syrian troops on towns and villages near the Lebanese border in early March, a large influx of refugees into Lebanon was reported on 4 March 2012. The exact number of newly displaced Syrian refugees was not clear but was estimated around 2,000.[43]

Turkey also reported an increased refugee flow of hundreds of people per day in mid March.[44] With the fresh influx, the number of UN registered Syrian refugees in Turkey's Hatay Province reached 13,000[44] to 13,500,[45] with possibly thousands more residing in other provinces.[46] Turkish officials near the Syrian border expected tens of thousands, perhaps as many as 50,000 new arrivals in late March and began constructing tent cities in the southern provinces of Hatay, Kilis, Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa.[45] By 18 March, the number of refugees in Turkey was reported at 14,700.[47]

In Jordan, as many as 80,000 Syrians were reported to have arrived, relocating mostly to the area of Ramtha and the northern city of Mafraq, according to Jordanian government spokesman Rakan Majali.[48] Rakan Majali also reported that a 30,000 square meter refugee camp was under construction in Jordan to host the influx of refugees.[48] The UN refugee agency estimated the number of registered Syrian refugees in Jordan between 5,000 and 8,000 and that Jordan had accepted around 5,000 Syrian students in state schools.[48]

The number of Syrian refugees in the Kurdish region of Iraq reached around 1,000 by 24 March.[49] Almost 1,000 asylum seekers, including 60 families and Syrian army defectors fled from Syria to Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region's Immigration Office.[49] Kurdish refugees are offered shelter and medical care in Domiz camp. Men are given the alternative of military training in a nearby camp, with the intention of protecting Kurdish-majority territories in Syria. [50]

By March 2012, the number of displaced Syrians was estimated by the U.N. at a total of 230,000 with 30,000 of them residing in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.[51] The UNHCR also published a report that more than 1,000 Syrians found shelter in Libya and more were expected to come by sea to Italy as well.[52]

April 2012

Syrian refugee center on the Turkish border 50 miles from Aleppo, Syria (3 August 2012).

During the April 2012 offensive by the Syrian Army, which preceded the expected ceasefire on 10 April of the Kofi Annan peace plan, the flow of refugees to Turkey reached its peak, with as many as 2,300 refugees on 4 April and 2,800 refugees on 5 April being displaced into Turkey's border areas.[16] The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey reached 23,835 by 6 April,[16] and about 25,000 by 10 April, when Kofi Annan visited the refugee camps in Turkey.[53] In Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu demanded Assad keep his promise to cease military operations, while demanding action by the international community and the UN, if more refugees came.[16]

There were 8,594 Syrian refugees reported to have reached Lebanon, with most of them in the Bekaa Valley.[17] The number of Syrian nationals in Jordan was estimated at 90,000.[54]-100,000.[18] The toal official UN number of registered refugees reached 42,000 by April,[55] while unofficial estimates stood at as many as 130,000. Aljazeera network estimated the number of Syrian refugees at 50-60,000.[56]

On 10 April, it was reported that the number of Syrian refugees in Syria's four neighboring countries jumped by 40 percent within the past few weeks and stood at about 55,000 registered refugees, almost half of whom were under 18 years old, according to U.N. figures. There were also estimated to be at least 20,000 refugees who were not registered at the time, as well as 200,000 or more Syrians who were internally displaced inside Syria.[57]

May 2012

In May, 3,171 Syrian nationals of Kurdish origin registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Kurdistan Region, according to a UNHCR statement.[58] An estimated 10 to 15 families and 50 to 65 individuals continued to enter Duhok governorate daily.[58]

June 2012

By the beginning of June, more than 4,000 Syrian Kurds had crossed the border into the Kurdish region of Iraq, as violence in Syria continued.[59] The large number of Syrian refugees in Jordan, estimated at 120,000, was reported to have caused a burden on Jordan's limited water resources.[60] The majority of Syrian refugees in Jordan were concentrated in the northern cities of Mafraq, Irbid, Ramtha, Jerash and Ajlun. In Lebanon, it was reported that the number of UNHCR registered Syrian refugees reached 17,000, while a total of about 26,000 registered and unregistered refugees were believed to be settled throughout the country.[61] Most of the refugees were reported to be women and children.[61] By the beginning of June, Turkey reported an influx of about 400 additional Syrian refugees, bringing the total number of registered refugees in Turkey to 24,500.[62]

July 2012

Syrian refugees in Lebanon living in cramped quarters (6 August 2012).

The Office of Visas and Registration of Armenia reported that 3,248 Syrian citizens, most of them ethnic Armenians, applied for Armenian citizenship by July 2012. In addition, six Syrian families (14 people) requested a residency permit.[63] Overall, up to 300 Syrians expressed their intention of staying in Armenia permanently.[64]

According to Lebanese sources, nearly 19,000 Syrians had fled the Syrian capital into Lebanon between 18 July and 20 July, as violence inside the city continued to escalate.[65] The United Nations refugee agency registered roughly 35,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan, but there were reported to be far more Syrian refugees along its borders, upward of 140,000 people.[66] The total number of registered refugees throughout the region was reported by the UNHCR at 112,000 on July 17, 2012.[67]

In the Iraqi Kurdish region more than 6,500 refugees were registered and over 1,400 were awaiting registration.[67] The total number of registered Syrians in Lebanon had reached around 28,100 refugees by 17 July, with a further 2,000 Syrians receiving assistance while waiting for registration.[67] In Turkey, it was reported that the number of registered refugees reached more than 43,000 by 21 July, although nearly 1,000 returned back to Syria because of poor conditions at the provisional refugee camps.[68]

August 2012

On 9 August, a boat of refugees, including 124 first Syrian refugees arrived in Italy.[69] By mid August, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that the number of registered Syrian refugees had reached over 200,000, exceeding the UNHCR estimate of 185,000 for the entire year.[10]

October 2012

The number of Syrian refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan swelled to 35,000 by late October 2012.[70]

December 2012

According to UNHCR data, the total number of Syrian refugees reached more than 408,000 registered in December 2012, mostly residing in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq (including Iraqi Kurdistan).[5] The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey reached 135,519 registered;[5] 8,852 in Iraq proper and additional 54,000 in Iraqi Kurdistan;[4] 109,081 registered in Lebanon, with 41,712 people awaiting registration;[5] 100,368 registered in Jordan, with 41,524 Syrians awaiting registration.[5] There are also 12,915 people registered in Egypt as of December 30, 2012,[5] and about at least 150,000 residing in the country.[2]

Reactions

 United Nations - The United Nations Human Rights Committee provided mattresses, kerosene heaters and jerry can to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Iraq in April 2012.[verification needed]

File:IOM.svg International Organization for Migration - The International Organization for Migration provided water filters, rechargeable lights, stoves, blankets and pillows in Lebanon and Iraq in June 2012.[verification needed]

 Cyprus - Cyprus announced its willingness to temporarily receive as many as 200,000 Syrian refugees in July 2012, although no specific plans were presented.[citation needed]

 Iraqi Kurdistan - The Kurdistan Regional Government announced plans to construct a second refugee camp for Syrian nationals fleeing the violence in their country, as the first refugee camp named "Qamishli", which was established following the 2004 Al-Qamishli riots, became overcrowded with refugees of the Syrian civil war.[71][verification needed]

 Israel - Israelis from humanitarian groups are in Jordan to assist Syrian refugees fleeing their country's civil war. Ayoob Kara, Israel's deputy minister for the developoment of the Negev and Galilee, said that Israelis are assisting children and infants who have been injured in the Syrian military’s ongoing violent crackdown throughout Syria.[72] He said Israeli volunteer groups had been providing humanitarian aid in Turkey and Jordan for the past two months.[72][verification needed]

 Jordan - Jordan began construction of a 30,000 square meter refugee camp in March 2012. Jordan has agreed to create camps to house the swelling numbers of refugees, including one camp already in the works in northern Jordan that could hold up to 113,000 people.[66] Jordan has forcibly returned some newly arriving Palestinians from Syria and threatened others with deportation. Jordan has absorbed some 126,000 Syrian refugees, but Palestinians fleeing Syria are placed in a separate refugee camp, under stricter conditions and are banned from entering Jordanian cities.[73] Since April 2012, Jordanian authorities have also arbitrarily detained Palestinians fleeing Syria in a refugee holding center without any options for release - other than to Syria. Jordan was criticized by Human Rights Watch for singling out Palestinian refugees.[74][75][76][verification needed]

Lebanon - As of 13 February 2013, more than 182,938 Syrian refugees are in Lebanon.[77] As the number of Syrian refugees increases, the Lebanese Forces Party, the Kataib Party, and the Free Patriotic Movement fear the country’s sectarian based political system is being undermined.[78]

 Turkey - Turkey has accommodated most of its Syrian refugees in tent cities in Hatay province, which have been constructed since summer 2011.[citation needed]

  Switzerland - Switzerland announced its consideration to accept Syrian refugees per U.N. request.[79][verification needed]

See also

External links

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