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Posted by Brian Kenety on 04 February 2010 09:17:24 PM

 

The UNHCR has closed a makeshift camp located between the borders of Iraq and Syria and relocated the last of the Palestinians who had been stranded there for nearly four years. The last 60 residents of the Al Tanf camp were transferred Feb.1 by the UNHCR, working in cooperation with Syrian authorities, and they will be housed temporarily at another refugee camp, Al Hol, inside Syria. “I am very happy that this is finally over,” said Abu Mohanned, one of the relocated refugees. “We have been waiting for this for such a long time and yet we are anxious about what’s next.” Al Tanf, a makeshift camp located on a narrow strip of the so-called “no man’s land” between the Syrian and Iraqi borders, was set up in May 2006 for Palestinian refugees who fled Iraq since 2003 because of threats, torture, detention, or after friends and family members were killed. (U.N. News Service)

 

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