Food Shortage Dire Among Syrian Refugees Outside Camps

"Last week, more than 200,000 Syrian refugees woke up to the news that they would no longer be receiving the food aid that they had come to rely on. The message from the UNHCR read: “Due to the low amounts of contributions the World Food Program (WFP) is sorry to inform you that your food aid has been stopped.”

In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Abeer Etefa, senior regional communications officer for the WFP in the Middle East, said the organization had done its best to keep delivering food aid to Syrian refugees but was no longer able to afford it.

“Let’s face the horrible situation here,” said Etefa. “We are facing a huge shortage of funds. We used to support around 100,000 refugees at the camps in Jordan in addition to 461,000 refugees outside the camps, but now with the low amounts of contributions we cannot.”

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