"Gaza - The PA ministry of refugees' affairs has called on the UN to swiftly transfer the Palestinian refugees residing in Iraq to Syria and Jordan to preserve their threatened lives.
The ministry, in a press release on Saturday, stressed that those refugees should remain under UN-supervision until their return to their homeland, and affirmed that they should remain near their homeland Palestine.
It urged the UN to shoulder its responsibility towards those refugees and to provide protection for them in face of the daily murder and arrest threats that ran contrary to human rights.
The ministry appealed to the UN secretary general and to the Arab League secretary general to immediately step in and solve the problem of Palestinian refugees in Iraq who have been stranded at the Syrian-Iraqi borders for months in tragic conditions.
Palestinian refugees in Iraq are the target of merciless murder, displacement and persecution at the hands of local militias forcing many families to flee their homes and seek refuge in nearby Arab countries that denied them entry, the ministry pointed out, adding that those families including a big number of children were trapped at the no-man's-land area without protection or help.
The ministry said that it was and still is pursuing contacts with a number of countries and concerned parties to wrap up this issue and to halt the Palestinian refugees' suffering in Iraq and those trapped at the borders with Jordan and Syria. "
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