Middle East: Palestinian refugees to resettle in Iceland and Sweden - but will Jihad follow

Nice to try and help - but as helping Muslims-in-need goes sometimes - good intentions backfire - as they did with the Muslims immigrants who were brought to Greenland - no doubt refugees in need of assistance - have become such a menace to the native community - smashing car windows and attacking Churchgoers so much so that the church has to pay for protection - and the Danish government has taken steps to run an information campaign in Arabic - to help the Muslim new comers understand that they must respect others - no Jihad allowed!! It is likely that Iceland could suffer the same fate - in trying to help they could too find that they are under siege from Islamic attacks and rapes of women and girls not wearing the Islamic dress. Which is probably one of the main reasons why Germany wishes to take only Christian Iraqi refugees.

(AKI) - Over two dozen Palestinian refugees stranded in a desert camp on the Iraq-Syria border for the last two years will be leaving the camp in the next few weeks for Iceland, the UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday.

The refugees have been living in the Al-Waleed refugee camp.

Another group of 155 Palestinians stuck between Syria and Iraq and Iraq in Al-Tanf refugee camp have been accepted for resettlement in Sweden, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday.

"UNHCR appreciates the support of both Iceland and Sweden in finding help for these very vulnerable people," the agency said.

Both groups of refugees include "some of the most vulnerable women and children with urgent medical needs requiring immediate attention," the agency said.

An estimated 2,300 Palestinians are living in abject conditions in two refugee camps along the Syria-Iraq border, unable to return to Iraq. Al-Waleed is presently home to over 1,400 refugees.

Al-Tanf camp, situated in the border area between Iraq and Syria, has doubled in size since October 2007, with close to 900 refugees living there.

The health situation of many of the refugees has become increasingly dire as proper medical care and viable alternatives are lacking and the nearest proper hospital is over 400 kilometres away, UNHCR said.

Medical conditions ranging from diabetes and birth defects to kidney problems, cancer and serious trauma have been reported by Palestinian health workers in Al-Waleed, who visit daily.

In the past 14 months, 12 refugees have died in the camps, UNHCR said.

UNHCR said that despite repeated appeals, few Palestinians in the border camps have been accepted for resettlement or offered shelter by other countries.

In 2007 and 2008, non-traditional resettlement countries such as Chile and Brazil welcomed over 230 Palestinian refugees previously stranded at the Al-Tanf refugee camp.

Source: AKI