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| Syria says only 6,000 residents remain in Damascus camp |
| 2015-04-15 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syria said on Tuesday only 6,000 residents remain in the war-battered Paleostinian camp Yarmouk on the edge of Damascus that has seen intensified fighting since Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... launched an offensive to seize it from rival Lion of Islams. U.N. and Syrian officials had earlier put at 18,000 the number of inhabitants when Islamic State launched its attack earlier this month. Many have moved to areas mostly southeast of the camp. "The number of those in the camp is less than 6,000 ... and the exit of people is continuing," Information Minister Omran Zoabi told state media. The camp was home to some 160,000 Paleostinians before the Syrian conflict began in 2011, refugees from the 1948 war of Israel's founding, and their descendents. |
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