Published : 01-11-2018
Efforts by dozens of volunteers have been in progress to remove debris from Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees. Mounds of debris have been removed from Street 15 down to Street 30. A number of access roads have been re-opened in the area. Rubble has also been cleared from the vicinities of AlKhames Clinic, UNRWA schools, and Yarmouk’s High School. The thoroughfare linking AlShuhadaa Park, in Jalal Kaaoush Street, and Loubiya road has also reportedly been unblocked.
The volunteers have finalized a debris clearance campaign in and around AlJaouna and Safad streets, along with Jadat AlNasirah, the local court, and AlHabib AlMustafa Mosque.
Dozens of Palestinian activists and relief officers have been pronounced dead in Yarmouk Camp as a result of heavy shelling, extrajudicial execution, or fatal torture in jail.
Most of Palestinian families taking shelter south of Damascus fled Yarmouk Camp as a result of the tough blockade imposed by the government troops and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command and also after ISIS grabbed hold of the camp on April 1, 2015. Scores of other stranded families fled the camp following the 33-day military operation launched by the government forces on April 19.
Efforts by dozens of volunteers have been in progress to remove debris from Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees. Mounds of debris have been removed from Street 15 down to Street 30. A number of access roads have been re-opened in the area. Rubble has also been cleared from the vicinities of AlKhames Clinic, UNRWA schools, and Yarmouk’s High School. The thoroughfare linking AlShuhadaa Park, in Jalal Kaaoush Street, and Loubiya road has also reportedly been unblocked.
The volunteers have finalized a debris clearance campaign in and around AlJaouna and Safad streets, along with Jadat AlNasirah, the local court, and AlHabib AlMustafa Mosque.
Dozens of Palestinian activists and relief officers have been pronounced dead in Yarmouk Camp as a result of heavy shelling, extrajudicial execution, or fatal torture in jail.
Most of Palestinian families taking shelter south of Damascus fled Yarmouk Camp as a result of the tough blockade imposed by the government troops and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command and also after ISIS grabbed hold of the camp on April 1, 2015. Scores of other stranded families fled the camp following the 33-day military operation launched by the government forces on April 19.
