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UNHCR Regional Flash Update #17 - Syria Situation Crisis (7 March 2025)

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  • As of 6 March 2025, UNHCR estimates that some 301,967 have returned to Syria via neighboring countries since early December 2024. The figures are based on a triangulation of sources from outside and inside Syria and include refugees registered with UNHCR and other Syrians returning from Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, as well those transiting from beyond the Region.
  • On 4 March, the spokesperson of the Jordanian government announced that Syrian refugees willing to leave Jordan voluntarily will be exempted from some customs service fees, including those for luggage and furniture.
  • According to a new large-scale intention survey carried out by UNHCR, REACH and the Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster, one million internally displaced people living in camps and sites across north-west Syria intend to return to their areas of origin within one year, 600,000 of them before the end of the summer.