Israel said to be aiding victims of Syrian war

[caption id="attachment_20264" align="alignleft" width="300"] Assistant Secretary Richard meets with Syrian refugees, even as Israel also is helping with aid.[/caption]

Leanne Jenkins---While many in the Middle East condemn Israel and its expansion into Palestinian lands, we are now learning that the country is aiding victims of the Syrian War.

The news comes at a time when the Syrian war remains controversial with the hope, however, that Syria will not use chemical weapons again, after meeting the suggestions of Russia to remove chemical weapons from the arsenal for war.

ABC News quotes Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon as saying,"We can't sit by and watch the humanitarian difficulties on the other side," Yaalon said. "We've transferred water, food, including baby food, taking into consideration that these villages are besieged and they don't have access to any other place. So therefore yes, we are assisting with humanitarian aid along the fence."  In this case he is referring to the clashes along the borders of Israel.

It is time for peaceful resolutions in the Middle East.  And whereas Israel continues to pronounce itself vigilant and determined not to allow aggression that will negatively impact its survival, it remains at the same time one of the nations willing to provide humanitarian aid to those in desperate need when they have nowhere else to go.

What will happen to the Syrian refugees upon resolution of presentconflict?

[caption id="attachment_20264" align="alignleft" width="300"] Assistant Secretary Richard meets with Syrian refugees[/caption]

Marsha Hunt---As the Syrian conflict has recently been in the news, along the borders one sees new waves of people fleeing war-torn areas to join the many who wait and worry to return to their homes, a wait that can last for years.

The recent conflict in Syria has forced many people to flee to Turkey. Turkey struggles to provide help, as other countries do with immigrants on the borders.

The World Migration Report is an attempt to examine how many refugees there might be and how they are faring. The report looks at quality of life issues as well as the numbers and does this every year. The information is presently being assembled for distribution so that people can understand what changes may have occurred since last year and previous years.

Refugees International is the organization that reports the status of refugees on an ongoing basis, with its website The organization's aim is to report the plight of these people and help shine a light on their needs.

Where do refugees go when they flee their countries? In the case of the war-torn areas of the Middle East and Asia, New Science reports two-thirds reside with families, rent rooms or reside in vacant buildings. The other live in camps.  The displacement of refugees from Syria is considered to be the largest of all time.

And one of the largest problems in the camps is humiliation, having to live where there is disease, lack of sanitation, struggles to find food, water and the basic necessities of living, and the lack of privacy. The longer a person stays in the camp, the worse that humiliation becomes. It fuels tensions as well.

So as the world waits and wonders what the major leaders of the world might do to end the Syrian conflict, the countries housing the refugees, and those who wait to return home, wonder how long it will be before they have the basic necessities at the very least and quality of life, which is the most important area of neglect for those who are the “collateral” damage of war.