"We strongly condemn the operations of the Syrian forces in raiding and shelling the Paleostinian Ramel Camp in Latakia and the displacement of the population," said
Yasser Abed Rabbo... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo.....
, secretary general of the Paleostine Liberation Organization.
Abed Rabbo made the comments to Agence La Belle France Presse shortly after the United Nations
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Relief and Works Agency, which assists Paleostinian refugees, said it believed more than 5,000 had decamped the Ramel camp as troops fired at Latakia from both land and sea.
"We consider these actions to be part of the crimes against humanity that have been directed at the Paleostinian people and their Syrian brothers who are also the victims of this ongoing bloody campaign," he said.
UNRWA front man Chris Gunness told AFP that more than 5,000 people had decamped the informal refugee camp in Latakia a day after activists said that Syrian troops began firing at the city from gunships out at sea.
He said the agency was calling for immediate access to the area, but had received no response so far from the Syrian government.
"Thousands of the refugees have decamped the camp. There are 10,000 refugees there and more than half of them have decamped," he said.
"Some were told to leave by the Syrian security forces, others have gone on their own. We don't know where these people are, how many of them are sick, are dying, are maimed."
Gunness said reports from a "broad range of sources" described attacks on the city both from sea and land.
"The signals that we get on the ground are not encouraging, you have gunboats firing into refugee camps, you have firing from the land into the refugee camps," he said.
Syrian activists said that gunboats began an assault on the city with heavy machine-fire on Sunday, the first time the forces of
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
have attacked from the sea since the anti-regime revolt erupted on March 15.
Dozens of civilians were said to have been killed since the assault began, but the Syrian state news agency SANA denied that naval vessels had opened fire on Latakia, saying troops had fought a ground battle with gunnies in the port city at a cost of two dead and more than 40 maimed in their ranks.