UNRWA: 3,500 Palestinian children stranded in Yarmouk

[oberliner]

"There are some 3,500 children stranded in the camp, while the sick and the elderly continue to die from lack of medical care," UNRWA spokesman Sami Mshasha said during a Sunday press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Mshasha said that some 90 percent of Yarmouk's 180,000 Palestinian residents have fled the camp - which continues to see violent clashes between Daesh militants and Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis militant group for over a month.

Moreover, Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime forces routinely drop barrel bombs on the beleaguered camp, according to the UNRWA.

"The situation in Yarmouk camp is indescribably tragic," Mshasha said.

"The UNRWA has repeatedly urged the Syrian regime to stop striking the camp indiscriminately with highly-destructive barrel bombs which results in civilian casualties as well as massive destruction."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/18414-unrwa-3500-palestinian-children-stranded-in-yarmouk

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I am sure that if we wait, people will rise up in anger at the country resposible for that.

Though I would not be surprised if most of what we hear form those defenders of the Palestinians is crickets.

[oberliner]

2. Pretty sure those folks you mention will say Israel is responsible

Or at least put them first on a list of culprits.

[azurnoir]

3. well there is a country that attempted to use their lives as blackmail to get around negotiating

with anyone for their future rights, and then to add insult to injury that countries boosters will tell you with barely a smirk that the leader of these people said they were better off dead than giving up their rights but upon investigation one will find it is hearsay or someone said he said to someone else and the source of this varies

[King_David]

4. That's quite the post...

I am kind of wondering what any of it means?

[oberliner]

6. Do you think Israel is responsible for the situation in Yarmouk?

I am thinking you do, but I would be happy to be wrong.

[azurnoir]

8. OVbiously not and besides who can blame Israel?

I mentioned that a nameless party refused to allow Palestinian refugees from Yarmouk refuge unless certain conditions regarding the refugees future freedom of movement were met, are you saying that it was Israel that did this?

[oberliner]

9. I didn't follow what you were talking about

Can you name the nameless party so that it can be made more clear?

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. You are correct. n/t

[King_David]

7. Already in this thread there is such a post

I think...