An appeal for $16.2 million was issued on Monday by a UN humanitarian organisation to help Palestinian refugees who were affected by the recent devastating earthquake in Syria.
Representatives of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) made a monetary plea at the international donors' meeting in Brussels.
The funds, which are a part of the organization's 2023 Syria-Lebanon Quick Appeal, were desperately required to meet the refugee group's post-earthquake rehabilitation and humanitarian needs in the wake of the tremor that devastated the north of Syria in February.
Almost 47,000 Palestinian refugees are thought to have been affected by the situation in Syria, with more than 2,300 currently displaced.
The organisation has previously provided telemedicine support, hygiene kits, blankets, emotional support for children, and financial aid to families to impoverished individuals.
Moreover, catch-up lessons and kid-focused psychosocial programmes have been implemented in UNRWA's reopened schools.
In the wake of the earthquake, UNRWA has pledged to continue providing Palestinian refugees with vital aid, but it has admitted that it cannot do so alone.