Armed conflict in Syria made relentless Syrians and Palestinians who are in the country to flee to other countries. (REUTERS / Muhammad Hamed)
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Beirut (AFP) - Hundreds of Palestinian refugees, who fled the unrest in Syria, protested to the UN offices in Saida, South Lebanon, Wednesday (2/1), for their poor living conditions in refugee camps. Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas , called for the protests to convey the demands of Palestinian refugees to the Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East / UNRWA). Lebanon faced difficulty in dealing with the increasing number of Palestinian refugees in country. many as 10,000 Palestinian refugees left the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus, after clashes erupted between the rebel Free Syrian Army and Syrian government forces. "We are facing a humanitarian crisis that has economic and social impacts that must be addressed," the official said Hamas Raafat Marra told the news network En Nashra during the protest. Marra stated refugees "would return to Syria as soon as the security situation allows," and stressed they would not be part of any domestic problems in Lebanon. According to UN estimates, the number of people in need humanitarian aid inside Syria has grow to four million by December 2012. UN estimates that no less than one million Syrian refugees will require assistance during the first half of 2013 - the most of being in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt. (C003 )