Tent City Could House All Refugees

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The sprawling network of high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, spreading across a 20 square km valley, and are only used for 5 days of the year by Hajj pilgrims. As the website Amusing Planet reports, "For the rest of the year. Mina remains pretty much deserted.'

The wealthy Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states receive zero Syrian refugees

36 million refugees from Syria [95 percent) are found in Ihe following five countries Turkey, 

Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypl

Lebanon is hosts lo 1 1 million refugees registered wilh UNHCR, which amounts lo about 26 

percent lof Ihe country's population

Jordan hosts 616,615 registered refugees, which amounts to 98 percent of the population

Turkey is hosting 1 6 million refugees, which amounts 2 4 percent the population

Iraq hosts 225,373 registered refugees, which amounts 0 67 percent of the population

Egypl has 142,543 registered refugees, which amounts 0 17 percent of the population

In Syria, about 190,000 people have been killed and 10 8 million people are in urgent need of 

humanitarian assistance  inside the country.

More than 10 million Syrians, or 45 percent the country's population have been displaced

Of these, 6 5 million are displaced wilhin Syria and aboul 4 million have sought refuge in other 

countries

A lotal of 63,170 resettlement places have been offered globally since the crisis in Syria 

began, which only represents only 1 7 percent of the total number of refugees in Lebanon, 

Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey

376,664 people in Ihe five host countries • or ten percent are in need of resettlement 

(permanent residence), according lo UNHCR

Amnesty International calls for at least five percent of refugees lo be resettled from the 5 host

countries in late 2015, and a further five percent by the end of 2016 (this amounts to 360000 

people)

The six wealthy Gulf countries -Qatar, Ihe United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwail and 

Bahrain -have offered to receive exactly "zero" Syrian refugees

It could of course be because Ihese countries are already islamized

high-income countries, including Russia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea have also 

offered lo receive exactly zero percenl of the Syrian refugees

II could of course be because they refuse lo drag the conflict in their own countries.