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Palestinian refugee camp in Syria virtually destroyed
 [Ynet] Yarmouk residents dying of starvation as siege by Assa forces continues. Paleostinian: 'We want to tell the PLO that if they don't do anything the revolution will arrive to Ramallah and Gazoo'
| A deadly lesson in sowing and reaping will once again be ignored. |
More than 40 Paleostinians have now died of starvation in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, say activists who are calling on the Paleostinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to intervene.
| Haven't you heard? There is no longer a PLO -- it died with Arafat. It's the oh so respectable Palestinian Authority now, ever so respectable and posh, trying to act like a real government instead of a bunch of Moscow-trained hoodlums. |
Three quarters of the dead have perished in the last three weeks as the situation in the camp, which is home to much of Syria's Paleostinian population, reaches a crisis point after six months of a crippling siege which have seen supplies of food and medical aid blocked from reaching the camp.
An estimated 170,000 people were previously living in the camp, with most leaving during the year long partial-siege before movement in and out of the camp became completely cut off.
| Smart move. Though as I recall, it was a similar bit of cleverness that stranded their ancestors in that place to start with. |
Conditions in the refugee camp have become desperate since the full government siege began in July 2013. The blockade of the area has meant no aid has been able to reach the estimated 18,000 residents of the camp. Christopher Gunness of the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Relief and Works Agency for Paleostinian Refugees said it isn't just the lack of food and medicine that is making the situation untenable for residents.
"Residents are having to rely on going out on terraces and burning furniture and branches to warm themselves in the open because wood fires cannot be used indoors. There is a very infrequent supply of tap water -- reportedly available for four hours only at intervals of three days."
| It sounds like Assad is serious about his siege. |
Many of Yarmouk's residents are of Paleostinian origin and tensions within the Paleostinian community reached Ramallah over the weekend as young protestors staged a sit-in at the PLO headquarters in the city over what they believe is a failure by the Paleostinian administration to assist in relieving conditions in the camp.
| Good luck with that, guys. |
The United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
is gravely concerned about the appalling conditions in the camp, Gunness told the Media Line.
In addition to the humanitarian conditions in the camp there are continuing festivities, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting that several surface to surface missiles were fired into the camp last week.
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-01-14 |
