The continuing refugee crisis in the Middle East has grown largely over the past decade with the impact of the nine-year-long Syrian Civil War. As a result, about 12 million people require humanitarian service. 6.7 million people are classified as refugees and another 6.2 million were displaced. The countries that have taken in refugees are Lebanon, Jordan, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt. Although the United States is one of the biggest superpowers, they only admitted 18,000 refugees between October 2011 to December 2016. With Turkey holding around 3.6 million refugees, the government made further regulations in 2019 for Syrian refugees. Jordan–holding 670,000 refugees– closed their border in 2016. The fear of heavy backlash or economic constraints led Hungary to create a border wall with Serbia in order to stop refugees from entering Europea. Violence in Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Eritrea has produced more refugees fleeing to Europe. In 2015, there was the highest number of displaced people since World War II, totaling to 63.91 million. The refugee crisis bears millions more of asylum seekers living in unsafe camps and countries proceeding to restrict their refugee policies.
The United Nations has requested humanitarian relief, refugee resettlement, IDP camp maintenance, and emergency medical supplies. However, they did not receive as much as was needed and received about half of what was requested. In 2017, the Syria Humanitarian Response Plan sought 3.2 billion dollars in humanitarian support and protection to 13.5 million people in Syria. UN-led convoys also reached 820,000 people in Syria. The Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) called for 4.4 billion dollars in supporting 5 million refugees. Recently the UN Security Council failed to reach a consensus on the two resolutions about the hostilities in Idlib, Syria. Belgium, Germany, and Kuwait proposed a ceasefire which got 12 out of 15 votes. China and Russia vetoed.
During October of this year, another 160,000 Syrian civilians fled the country due to increased military operations. The crisis continues to be a problem in which the United Nations has been unable to come to an agreement on what is the best way to take control of the situation. The almost ten-year war doesn’t show signs of diminishing anytime soon and countries have become more reluctant to help due to xenophobia.
Sources:
news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1046802.
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