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Syrian Refugees Research Paper

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American Near East Refugee Aid was developed in spite of the Arab-Israeli War in 1967 that left hundreds upon thousands of Palestinians homeless and impoverished. This clearly was not the only war that we have helped in, there have been others. When refugees along with poor communities are in need of aid, we are dedicated to helping them. 1967 may seem like such a long time ago, but wars break out all the time. One of the most recent wars was the Lebanon War that took place in 2006. With our help, we were able to aid more than 1 million civilians. Without our help, who knows where those people would be right now? Who knows if they would still be alive? ("ANERA's History | History of Humanitarian Aid and Relief to Palestine") We at ANERA are here to meet the humanitarian needs …show more content…

In an interview with Bill Corcoran, President and CEO of ANERA, he explains the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis. In one question, he was asked “How do you think the situation of Syrian refugees will change after the Syria donors conference?” in which he replied that “it has been five years into this flow of refugees and everyone is crippling with … ‘How do we pay for this?’” Along with that, he was also asked about the spotlight being taken off of the Palestinian refugees’ crisis and being turned to the Syrian refugees’ crisis in which he replied that the Palestinians “are more limited in what the futures are” with less resources and some without the ability to work. Something that worries Corcoran is that funders are slowing down their commitments by giving less each time around. In Gaza, for example, only 3% of the promised money for the rebuilding process was given which is not much to work with

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