The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has called for “an immediate injection” of $30 million to provide aid for residents of the beleaguered Yarmouk refugee camp, where fighting between Palestinian factions and the Islamic State group continues. In a statement released Friday, UNRWA claimed to have “significantly expanded” their aid[…]
The Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria is using heavy weaponry and artillery in ongoing fighting in the beleaguered Yarmouk refugee camp, a PLO official said. Ahmad al-Majdalani, the PLO envoy to Syria, told Ma’an that despite heavy fighting with the Syrian army ISIS have maintained their positions in the camp[…]
The head of the Palestinian National Council, Salim Zanoun, has called on the Palestinian leadership to speed up efforts to resolve the ongoing Yarmouk crisis. Zanoun said that residents of the beleaguered refugee camp don’t need discussion, but political and material support. His comments were directed at the PNC’s executive[…]
A group of 14 Palestinian factions said Thursday they backed a joint military operation with the Syrian government to expel Islamic State group from the Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus. After a meeting of the factions in the Syrian capital, PLO official Ahmed Majdalani said the groups supported a coordinated[…]
A military operation is necessary to expel Islamic State militants from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in south Damascus, Syria’s reconciliation minister said on Wednesday. “The priority now is to expel and defeat militants and terrorists in the camp. Under the present circumstances, a military solution is necessary,” minister Ali[…]
Fresh fighting was taking place on Tuesday in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, with those fleeing battles with the Islamic State (ISIS) militia reporting a dire humanitarian situation. Refugees said they had run out of food and water before taking[…]
A senior Palestinian official said Monday he was headed to Damascus for talks on helping residents inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, parts of which have been overrun by the Islamic State group. Hundreds of families have been evacuated from the camp in a southern neighborhood of Damascus after IS militants[…]
The Islamic State of the Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group has seized control over large parts of the Yarmouk district in southern Damascus, inhabited mainly by Palestinian refugees, according to a senior Palestinian official, witnesses and an activist monitoring group. Anwar Abdel Hadi, director of political affairs for the Palestine[…]
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