The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says it is seeing Syrian refugees pouring into Jordan from further and further distances, crossing inhospitable terrain in search of safety.
Syrian Exodus into Jordan
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Most of the refugees coming into Jordan from the east are children. These have just been loaded on a Jordanian Border Patrol truck to be moved to safety.
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6 yr old Nisreen starting her 450 km. trip to her new home as a refugee from the remote eastern Jordan-Syria border.
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Rasha, age 8,fled Homs in her pajamas after her house was shelled. She travelled for 12 days to reach the Jordan border.
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101 year-old Atfa, a Syrian refugee who passed away in the Zaatri refugee camp in Jordan. He had fled Syria only ten days earlier.