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Mosby

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Thu Feb 6, 2014, 05:15 PM Feb 2014

Starving refugees: How we disowned Palestinians in Syria

A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are paying a heavy price for Syria's cruelest war.

They are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are dying from hunger.

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Not that other Arab countries have proven kinder than Syria, for the UN agency reports that "those who have reached Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt face risky legal limbo compounded with living conditions so difficult that many decide to return to the dangers inside Syria."

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=664209

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Starving refugees: How we disowned Palestinians in Syria (Original Post) Mosby Feb 2014 OP
Too bad they can't go home. n/t Jefferson23 Feb 2014 #1
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