REFUGEES: STARVING FOR ACCESS IN SYRIAS YARMOUK CAMPJonathan Rozen
A bulldozer removes rubble in the Yarmouk Camp in southern Damascus, Syria, on Oct. 9, 2018. Five months after the area was liberated, the reconstruction has recently begun with the first step of removing the piles of destroyed concrete and rubble from main roads. (Xinhua/Hummam Sheikh Ali...
It became home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in Syria. Before the recent ISIS incursion, around 160,000 people lived there. Life in the camp had already become intolerable for most residents following 18 months of bombing and a siege because of Syria's civil war. Many parts of...
IS, the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, is now only a few kilometres from Mr Assad’s seat of power. The Palestinian official echoed the Syrian government line that the only way to rid the camp of the ultra-radical militants was through force. “What we have agre...
Yarmouk, asThe Guardianput it, became the “worst place in Syria”. Entrapped by a circle of steel, those who essentially had nothing to do with the conflict, became its worst victims as they starved to death in the rubble. Some analysts say that Assad’s brutality was prompted by fears...
The article discusses the highlights of the Palestine Center event held in Washington, DC on February 6, 2014 to discuss the condition of the Palestinian community in Syria, particularly the Yarmouk Camp in Damascus, Syria. Syrian-Palestinian journalist Nidal Bitari was introduced by executive ...
The Defenders of YarmoukNour Samaha