Palestinians Starving inside Al Qaeda held Syria Refugee Camp. Al Nusra is supported by Israel | Global Research
Palestinians Starving inside Al Qaeda held Syria Refugee Camp. Al Nusra is supported by Israel | Global Research
Mass starvation, disease and hopelessness abound in the Yarmouk
Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Although a UN agency has managed
to make its first food aid delivery to the rebel-held camp in weeks,
many people are on the brink of starvation.
The camp is located on the edge of the territory the Syrian
government considers under its control, in a southern Damascus
neighborhood, just five miles away from the capital’s center.
Rebel forces have been holding the camp for more than a year and the
army started a siege in June. Nothing and no one comes in or out, as
18,000 people continue to be kept in a state of limbo.
Some of the Palestinian refugees living in the camp have been there
for decades, victims of the Palestinian people’s conflict with Israel.
Now they are hoping desperately for a resolution to this conflict, in
Syria.
A handout picture released by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA) on January 21, 2014 shows a general view of destruction in
Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus where the
organisation say thousands are trapped and in dire need of aid.
(AFP/UNRWA)
