Published : 21-08-2022
AGPS kept record of the death of nearly 4,000 Palestinians and incarceration of over 1,900 others in the beleaguered Syrian territories.
Palestinian medics and relief activists have also been permanently targeted by the Syrian regime forces on claims of assisting opposition affiliates. Several relief workers and volunteers died under torture in government lock-ups.
The list of Palestinian medics who were tortured to death in Syrian regime prisons includes: Surgeon Nizar Jawdat Kassab, from Yarmouk Camp; gynecologic physician Mahmoud Hamarna, from Yarmouk; Radi Saleh Abu Shakoush, from Khan AlSeih Camp; Yasser AlTarabulsi; anesthetist Maw’ed AlMaw’ed, activist Udai Qadoura, from the Palestine Charity Commission, and Mohamed Khaled Noufel, from Khan AlSheih Camp.
The list of missing medics includes general surgeon Hayel Kasem Hamid, aged 67. Hamid is a member of the General Surgery Department at AlAssad University Hospital. Palestinian neurosurgeon Alaa AlDeen Youssef and another Palestinian refugee—Malek Mohamed Youssef—also figure on the list. Youssef, a dentistry graduate, was kidnapped by the government forces from Damascus University on May 23, 2013.
Medical staff and structures in besieged Yarmouk Camp came under heavy shelling by the government squads. Dozens of doctors, pharmacists, and paramedics have been pronounced dead in the raging warfare, among them Ahmed Nawaf AlHassan and Khaled AlKhalidi. Dozens more were kidnapped and executed by ISIS.
Relief activists Yahya Abdullah Hourani Abu Suhaib, Mohamed Areisha, Abu AlAbd Khalil, Bahaa AlAmin, Mustafa AlShar’an, and Firas AlNaji were also assassinated in Yarmouk Camp.
Several relief institutions have gone out of operation after ISIS crept into the camp in early April 2015.
At the same time, AGPS documented the death of 18 Palestinian journalists in Syria and the secret detention of dozens more since the outburst of deadly hostilities in March 2011, among whom academics and volunteers.
The causalities died while covering scenes on the battleground or while providing civilians with relief assistance across the ravaged Syrian territories.
The list includes nine journalists who died under shelling, five who were tortured to death, and four others who were fatally shot.
The casualties are photojournalists and activists Fady Abu Ajaj, Jamal Khalifa, Ahmad AlSahli, Bassam Hamidi, Ahmad Taha, and Bilal Sa’id. They were killed in onslaughts targeting Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees.
Photojournalist Jehad Shehabi died in an air strike on Hjeira town, south of Damascus, while activist Yamen Dhaher was killed in a raid on Khan Eshieh Camp. News correspondent Tareq Ziad Khader was pronounced dead in Daraa Camp, south of Syria.
Yarmouk residents Niraz Sa’id, Khaled Bakrawi, Hassan Hassan, and Alaa Naji, along with Bilal Ahmad, from Muadhamiyat AlSham, were tortured to death in Syrian government prisons.
Iyas Farhat was the first journalist to be killed in Yarmouk as he covered a rally protesting the murder of 14 members of the Palestine Liberation Army in the bloody warfare north of Syria.
Ghassan Shehabi, director of AlShajara Center to document Palestinian heritage, along with activists Ahmad Kousa and Mounir AlKhatib were gunned down by a government sniper in Yarmouk Camp.
AGPS kept record of the death of nearly 4,000 Palestinians and incarceration of over 1,900 others in the beleaguered Syrian territories.
Palestinian medics and relief activists have also been permanently targeted by the Syrian regime forces on claims of assisting opposition affiliates. Several relief workers and volunteers died under torture in government lock-ups.
The list of Palestinian medics who were tortured to death in Syrian regime prisons includes: Surgeon Nizar Jawdat Kassab, from Yarmouk Camp; gynecologic physician Mahmoud Hamarna, from Yarmouk; Radi Saleh Abu Shakoush, from Khan AlSeih Camp; Yasser AlTarabulsi; anesthetist Maw’ed AlMaw’ed, activist Udai Qadoura, from the Palestine Charity Commission, and Mohamed Khaled Noufel, from Khan AlSheih Camp.
The list of missing medics includes general surgeon Hayel Kasem Hamid, aged 67. Hamid is a member of the General Surgery Department at AlAssad University Hospital. Palestinian neurosurgeon Alaa AlDeen Youssef and another Palestinian refugee—Malek Mohamed Youssef—also figure on the list. Youssef, a dentistry graduate, was kidnapped by the government forces from Damascus University on May 23, 2013.
Medical staff and structures in besieged Yarmouk Camp came under heavy shelling by the government squads. Dozens of doctors, pharmacists, and paramedics have been pronounced dead in the raging warfare, among them Ahmed Nawaf AlHassan and Khaled AlKhalidi. Dozens more were kidnapped and executed by ISIS.
Relief activists Yahya Abdullah Hourani Abu Suhaib, Mohamed Areisha, Abu AlAbd Khalil, Bahaa AlAmin, Mustafa AlShar’an, and Firas AlNaji were also assassinated in Yarmouk Camp.
Several relief institutions have gone out of operation after ISIS crept into the camp in early April 2015.
At the same time, AGPS documented the death of 18 Palestinian journalists in Syria and the secret detention of dozens more since the outburst of deadly hostilities in March 2011, among whom academics and volunteers.
The causalities died while covering scenes on the battleground or while providing civilians with relief assistance across the ravaged Syrian territories.
The list includes nine journalists who died under shelling, five who were tortured to death, and four others who were fatally shot.
The casualties are photojournalists and activists Fady Abu Ajaj, Jamal Khalifa, Ahmad AlSahli, Bassam Hamidi, Ahmad Taha, and Bilal Sa’id. They were killed in onslaughts targeting Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees.
Photojournalist Jehad Shehabi died in an air strike on Hjeira town, south of Damascus, while activist Yamen Dhaher was killed in a raid on Khan Eshieh Camp. News correspondent Tareq Ziad Khader was pronounced dead in Daraa Camp, south of Syria.
Yarmouk residents Niraz Sa’id, Khaled Bakrawi, Hassan Hassan, and Alaa Naji, along with Bilal Ahmad, from Muadhamiyat AlSham, were tortured to death in Syrian government prisons.
Iyas Farhat was the first journalist to be killed in Yarmouk as he covered a rally protesting the murder of 14 members of the Palestine Liberation Army in the bloody warfare north of Syria.
Ghassan Shehabi, director of AlShajara Center to document Palestinian heritage, along with activists Ahmad Kousa and Mounir AlKhatib were gunned down by a government sniper in Yarmouk Camp.
