whereby it was almost 48 percent for refugees in comparison to 17 percent for non-refugees. As for the locality, food insecurity was experienced in refugee camps by 49.38 percent, 33.35 percent in urban areas, and 9.17 percent in rural areas.290 Graph 2.4: Food Security in oPt, 2020291 Moderately Food Insecure 13.66% Chapter 2 Severely Food Insecure 17.55% Food Secure 47.33% Marginally Food Secure 21.46% In the same context, UNRWA’s 2022 oPt Emergency Appeal stated that about 1.2 million Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been targeted for emergency food assistance, while 47,000 refugees were targeted for cash-for-work opportunities. In the West Bank, 38,350 individuals from Bedouin and herder communities were targeted for emergency food assistance, and about 22,044 Palestinian abject poor refugees are targeted for emergency cash assistance.292 As for Jordan, poverty rates for Palestinian refugees are higher amongst those living in the camps in comparison to those living outside of camps. A direct positive correlation is noticeable between poverty and household size, health problems, less education, unemployment or the lack of Jordanian nationality.293 UNRWA statistics show that in 2021, some approximately 59,000 registered refugees in Jordan received cash-based transfers under the Social Safety Net Program (SSNP).294 Palestinian refugees without citizenship in Jordan, including nearly 175,000 forcibly displaced persons from Gaza in 1967 and 19,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS), are particularly vulnerable to poverty as they have limited employment opportunities and no access to social benefits other than the ones provided by UNRWA. UNRWA’s Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan Emergency Appeal 2022 Humanitarian Dashboard reveals that 100 percent of PRS are in need of winterization assistance and emergency cash 290 Ibid. MAS, ‘Publications: Socio-Economic & Food Security Survey 2020 – SEFSEC’ (MAS, 2021) <https://mas.ps/en/ publications/5387.html> accessed 3 October 2022. 292 UNRWA, ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory: Emergency Appeal 2022’ (2022) <https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/ files/content/resources/2022_opt_ea-english_eng.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 293 Åge A. Tiltnes and Huafeng Zhang, Progress, Challenges, Diversity: Insights into the Socio-Economic Conditions of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan (FAFO 2013) <https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/insights_into_the_socio-economic_ conditions_of_palestinian_refugees_in_jordan.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 294 UNRWA, ‘Annual Operational Report 2020’ (2021) <https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unrwa-annualoperational-report-2020/> accessed 3 October 2022. 291 59