In 2023, Japan accepted 1,310 folks in search of asylum – lower than 10 per cent of the 13,823 candidates.
Beneath a unique framework, as of the top of final yr, Japan had accepted a complete of 82 folks as college students from Syria who had been recognised as refugees by the UN refugee company, a overseas ministry official in command of support programmes stated.
That scheme was geared toward educating future leaders of Syria as a part of Japan’s long-term overseas support coverage, the official advised AFP.
The well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza stated 50 Palestinian sufferers, together with 30 youngsters with most cancers, and their companions went by the reopened Rafah crossing to Egypt on Saturday as a part of the ceasefire deal, which got here into impact on Jan 19.
The director of Gaza hospitals stated 6,000 sufferers had been able to be transferred from the Palestinian territory, and greater than 12,000 had been “in dire want of therapy”.
