The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed its appreciation to Iceland, for agreeing to accept 29 Palestinian refugees.
The group has been stranded for the last two years in a makeshift camp in the desert on the Iraq-Syria border, and includes some of the most vulnerable refugee women -- several of whom lost their husbands during the conflict in Iraq -- and their children. Some 2,300 Palestinians are still living in desperate conditions in two refugee camps along the Iraq-Syria border, according to UNHCR. We have more on that upstairs.
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