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         High  Commissioner  for  Refugees,                  earthquake  that  struck  Morocco  and

         while  there  is  no  specific  body                the floods that struck Yemen were also
         specialized  in  protecting  internally             recorded.      Especially      since     some

         displaced  persons,  so  responsibility  is         countries  in  the  region  suffer  from
         divided.  Several  institutions  provide            internal  displacement  in  a  complex

         support  to  them,  such  as  the  Red              manner,  such  as  Syria,  which  is  still
         Crescent  and  the  World  Health                   grappling  with  one  of  the  largest

         Organization.  The  rights  of  internally          protracted  internal  displacement  cases
         displaced  persons  are  enshrined  in              in  the  world  -  7.2  million  displaced
         international  human  rights  law  and              people by the end of 2023, a 6 percent

         international       humanitarian         law.       increase  from  2022.  The  effects  of
         However,  peace  operations  must                   conflicts       were       multiplied       by

         include  a  specific  focus  on  internally         earthquakes,  which  in  turn  affected
         displaced  people  since  their  needs              development  and  infrastructure.  In

         often differ from those of refugees and             addition      to     Libya,     where      the
         other war-affected populations.                     population  of  Derna  was  already  in  a

         In  the  Middle  East,  the  total  number          fragile  situation  as  a  result  of  conflict
         of internally displaced people reached              and  repeated  violence,  and  with  the
         15.3  million,  an  all-time  high.  About          collapse of two dams, the governorate

         5.4 million internally displaced people             was flooded, resulting in more internal
         were recorded across the Middle East                displacement.

         and North Africa. After three years in              With  the  launching  of  the  Arab
         which  conflict-related  displacement               Strategy for Youth, Peace and Security

         declined, it increased more than eight-             in  Jordan  last  August,  which  aims  to
         fold  between  2022  and  2022.  And                develop  the  role  of  youth  in  peace-

         2023.  This  is  due  to  the  Israeli              building  processes  and  overcome
         aggression  on  Gaza,  which  alone                 religious,      ethnic     and       sectarian
         caused 3.4 million internally displaced             differences  while  establishing  peace  in

         people,  according  to  the  Global                 the  region,  I  would  like  to  propose
         Report  on  Internal  Displacement                  some  recommendations,  as  internally

         GRID. Cases of internal displacement                displaced  people  rarely  participate
         were also recorded in Syria, Lebanon,               directly in peace processes due to فhe
         Yemen,  Iraq  and  Libya.  Cases  of                formal  and  high-level  nature  of  these

         displacement  resulting  from  disasters            processes,  the  lack  of  skills  and
         such as the                                         capacities to participate, and









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