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Fighting displaces 70-80% of Palestinians in Syria : UN

The conflict in Syria has displaced more than two-thirds of Palestinian refugees living in the country, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees said on Wednesday."We have registered approximately 530,000 Palestinian refugees. We believe that almost all of them, certainly maybe 70-80 percent, are displaced from their normal homes," UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo Grandi told AFP on a visit to Syria.Between 12 and 15 percent of the Palestinian refugee population has fled the country altogether, Grandi added."You can say that 12-15 percent of the refugee population in Syria is now (made) refugee again in another country," he said, speaking after meeting Palestinian refugees at a camp in central Homs province.UNRWA has nine registered camps for Palestinian refugees in Syria, housing those who fled or were forced from their homes when the state of Israel was created in 1948, and their descendants.Some of the camps, including Yarmuk in Damascus, have been the scene of heavy ...

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    Fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah joined Syrian troops battling rebels near Damascus on Wednesday, monitors said, as President Bashar al-Assad's regime kept up a pus...

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