{"id":26269,"date":"2012-09-27T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=26269"},"modified":"2012-09-27T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:22:27","slug":"syria-conflict-un-warns-syria-refugees-could-reach-700000-syrian-conflict-news-26269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/syria-conflict-un-warns-syria-refugees-could-reach-700000-syrian-conflict-news-26269\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Conflict: UN Warns, Syria Refugees Could Reach 700,000 \/ Syrian Conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/syria-refugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26288\" title=\"syria-refugees\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/syria-refugees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/syria-refugees.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/syria-refugees-280x145.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The number of refugees fleeing the bloodshed in Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year, the United Nations has warned.<\/h1>\n<p>About 294,000 refugees have already crossed into the neighbouring countries of Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey since the conflict began 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The UN refugee agency said more money was urgently needed to care for the hundreds of thousands expected to arrive in refugee camps over the next three months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are running out of time,&#8221; Panos Moumtzsis, the UN chief co-ordinator for Syrian refugees, told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>He said humanitarian agencies need \u00a3305m ($487.9m) to sustain their operations until the end of the year. At present, only \u00a388m is available &#8211; just 29% of the total needed.<\/p>\n<p>With winter approaching, he said money was urgently needed for tents, clothing, blankets and heaters.<\/p>\n<p>Riots erupted this week at the UN-run Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan after Syrians complained about poor living conditions at the 30,000-strong compound.<\/p>\n<p>Police used tear gas to quell the violence and eight Syrians were charged with &#8220;unlawful assembly and carrying out riots&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 officers were injured in similar disturbances at the camp last month.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, which is hosting more than 200,000 Syrian refugees, has complained of limited resources to cope with the growing number of Syrians flooding into the country.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of refugees fleeing the bloodshed in Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year, the United Nations has warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,14],"tags":[9002,21615,15864,35050,35047,31909,35048,20767,35049,35053,35052],"class_list":["post-26269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-syria","tag-syria-conflict","tag-syria-refugees","tag-syria-refugees-could-reach-700000","tag-syria-refugees-jordan","tag-syria-refugees-turkey","tag-syria-refugees-un","tag-syria-un","tag-un-warns-refugges","tag-united-nations-syria-conflict","tag-united-nations-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}