Angelina Jolie Meets With Syrian Refugees In Jordan’s Zaatari Camp
8 years ago Lily Garner
Angelina Jolie Meets With Syrian Refugees In Jordan's Zaatari Camp
Movie star Angelina Jolie visited a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan on Sunday, calling for a political solution to Syria's long-running civil war and saying that "humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution."
Children crowded around the U.S. actress as she spoke in a patch of muddy space between hundreds of rows of caravans in the desert camp of Zaatari, less than an hour's drive from the Syrian border.
It was Jolie's fifth visit to Jordan.
"It is heartbreaking to return to Jordan and witness the levels of hardship and trauma among Syrian refugees as this war enters its eighth year," Jolie said after meeting refugee families and teenage girls in a U.N.-run community program.
"I'm very proud. You're very strong, all of you," Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, told them.
Nearly 5.5 million displaced Syrians are hosted by Jordan, Lebanon and other neighboring countries...