Refugee crisis keeps mounting in Jordan with 60000 Syrians cramped in camps

#jordan #syrianrefugees #KingAbdullah King Abdullah, the King of Jordan, has warned the global community that his country is at 'boiling point' because of the number of Syrian refugees and the West needs to extend a helping hand before the 'dam bursts'. Jordan is at present hosting more than 600,000 of the 4.6million Syrians who have registered with the UN as refugees since the civil war broke out in the country five years ago.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 February 2016.

However, the government of Jordan adds that there are another one million unregistered Syrians who are living in the country adding to its population of 9.5million. There are apprehensions that many more will arrive because there are still another 13.5million vulnerable and displaced people who continue to remain in Syria.
Speaking ahead of a key conference on Syria that is being held in London this week, King Abdullah has said that the flood of refugees into his country had damaged its education and healthcare systems. He has urged Western leaders to recognize the huge strain that the Syrian conflict is having on Jordanians.
Al Zaatari is one of the biggest camps in Jordan near the city of Mafraq - it currently has around 80,000 people. This is similar to Bath in the UK and Napa City in the U.S.. Aerial photographs taken from a helicopter flying over the camp reveals tents and other temporary homes stretching over miles of the Jordanian desert.
There are 3,000 refugee-operated shops and businesses within its perimeters because there is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit in Zaatari. These include a pizza delivery service, barbers, hairdressers, greengrocers, coffee shops and even a wedding boutique.
Incidentally, one of the roads is named after the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Moreover, nearly 15.5 tons of bread are distributed daily while three boreholes provide 3.4million liters of water every day a day, which is distributed via a network of 82 trucks. In the summer, temperatures can reach 50C in the shade.


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Jordan Air Force bombs ISIS targets in retaliation of burning alive a Jordanian pilot

#KingAbdullahII #jordan #ISIS #MaazalKassasbeh It was a retaliatory action by Jordan against the ISIS militants due to their burning alive a pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh who had been captured by the militants in Syria as reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 6 February 2015. He was captured by ISIS in December following the crash of his F-16 fighter aircraft in Syria.
King Abdullah II was briefed on the attacks by the armed forces chief of staff – the attacks were carried out by the Jordanian Air Force eagles. It seems the aircrafts struck ISIS training camps apart from their weapons and ammunition stores.
Location of the targets have not been disclosed but, as per information, the targets were destroyed and the aircraft were safe, they have returned to base safely.
These news have come even as people were killed when rebels unleashed rocket fire on Damascus and the forces of President Bashar al-Assad retaliated.
King Abdullah II cut short his US visit and returned to Amman after the video of Kassasbeh's killing emerged. Later, he visited the family of the slain airman to pay his condolences.
The military of Jordan has vowed to not only destroy the ISIS but also ‘kill the evil in its own place’ and punish them for perpetrating the heinous act of burning the pilot alive.
The situation in Syria is a matter of concern for the world. In a recent spate of attacks, at least 66 people, including 12 children, were killed by regime air strikes and shelling on rebel areas around Damascus as revealed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The assault took place on the Eastern Ghouta region and occurred when the rebels fired more than 100 rockets at the city, killing 10 people including a child.
Incidentally, Jordan has been carrying out raids on a regular basis as a part of the US-led campaign against the ISIS Sunni extremist group and over 200,000 people have lost their lives ever since anti-government protests erupted in Syria in early 2011. There is destruction and death all over the country and, with the escalation of a multi-sided civil war, the jihadists got an opportunity to enter and create mayhem.

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