Good Question. Why Does No One Care About These Palestinians? by Khaled Abu Toameh

Unfortunately, the Palestinians of Syria live in an Arab country. Were those Palestinians living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, the international media, the United Nations and human rights organizations would have interrupted the daily media fare of coronavirus by shouting day and night about Israel's purported persecution of the Palestinians.

Khaled Abu Toameh..
Gatestone Institute..
14 April '20..

As the world is busy combating the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Palestinians are continuing to "disappear" in Syrian prisons -- or otherwise die. Those in the international community expressing concern about the possible spread of the virus in the Gaza Strip are ignoring the existing tragedy of the Palestinians in Syria, particularly those held in various Syrian government-controlled prisons.

The international community also does not seem to care if a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria is about to be wiped off the face of the earth.

The reason the world does not care about the atrocities committed against Palestinians in Syria: they cannot blame Israel for them.

An Arab persecuting or torturing an Arab never seems to be condemned by the international community.

The following are some distressing figures released this week by the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS), a London-based human rights watchdog organization that monitors the situation of Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria.

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Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute.