NNA - The World Food Program has announced that it will reduce its monthly aid to more than 100,000 Syrian refugees residing in Jordan, by a third, starting next August, due to lack of funding, according to "Agence France-Presse".

The Program indicated in a statement that, "unfortunately, it will have to reduce the value of monthly aid by a third for all the 119,000 Syrian refugees in the Zaatari and Azraq camps," due to a lack of funding, as they will receive a reduced cash transfer of $21 per person per month, down from the previous amount of $32.

Jordan hosts about 650,000 Syrian refugees registered with the United Nations, while the Kingdom estimates that the number of those who have sought refuge in its lands since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in 2011 is about 1.3 million.

The statement stressed that despite the reduction in the value of aid and "the exclusion of about 50,000 individuals from aid to give priority to the most needy families...the World Food Program still faces a severe funding shortfall of $41 million until the end of 2023."

According to the United Nations, some 5.5 million registered Syrian refugees live in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.

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