Published : 20-10-2016
A group of Palestinian activists and journalists residing in refugee camps in Syria and in the diaspora leveled heavy criticism at the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the latter pushed for exhuming the cadavers of the slain Fatah leaders Khalil al-Wazir, nicknamed Abu Jihad, and Sa’ad Sayel, nicknamed Abu Al-Waleed, and transferring them to the occupied West Bank on claims that the Yarmouk cemetery was leveled by ISIS outfits who snatched the area.
A statement emailed to AGPS spoke out against any attempt to strip the Yarmouk camp of its resistance annals, warning that the PA’s request could spark “an explosion” in Yarmouk and other refugee camps in the diaspora.
“It is a scar on the PA’s face that factions have been turning blind eyes and deaf ears to the genocides perpetrated against the Palestinian refugees in Syria,” the statement read.
It lashed out at the PA for keeping an eye on the affairs of the dead while turning their back on the tragedies endured by the refugee survivors, many among whom who have been humiliated around the clock by all parties involved in the fighting, without exception.
The statement atributed the havoc wreaked on the cemetery to the heavy blitzes launched by the Syrian fighter airplanes in April 2015 via explosive barrels. The bombardment led to the destruction of over a third of its overall area.
The statement added that ISIS fighters, currently in command of most of the area, pulled down dozens of headstones showing the names of the buried refugees and the dates when they were born and killed. Reports have, meanwhile, emerged on the intent of ISIS squads to raze the cemetery and wipe out the dead corpses.
The statement called on the Palestinian people from all socio-political spectra to rally round the refugees in war-ragged Syria and to take their responsibilities vis-à-vis the refugees’ plight.
“The life of the Palestinian children who have been cordoned off in the camp is in no way less precious than the body remnants of slain refugees,” it further noted.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities rebuffed a PA appeal to bring the bodies of the two Fatah leaders Khalil al-Wazir and Sa’ad Sayel to burial in the occupied West Bank.
A group of Palestinian activists and journalists residing in refugee camps in Syria and in the diaspora leveled heavy criticism at the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the latter pushed for exhuming the cadavers of the slain Fatah leaders Khalil al-Wazir, nicknamed Abu Jihad, and Sa’ad Sayel, nicknamed Abu Al-Waleed, and transferring them to the occupied West Bank on claims that the Yarmouk cemetery was leveled by ISIS outfits who snatched the area.
A statement emailed to AGPS spoke out against any attempt to strip the Yarmouk camp of its resistance annals, warning that the PA’s request could spark “an explosion” in Yarmouk and other refugee camps in the diaspora.
“It is a scar on the PA’s face that factions have been turning blind eyes and deaf ears to the genocides perpetrated against the Palestinian refugees in Syria,” the statement read.
It lashed out at the PA for keeping an eye on the affairs of the dead while turning their back on the tragedies endured by the refugee survivors, many among whom who have been humiliated around the clock by all parties involved in the fighting, without exception.
The statement atributed the havoc wreaked on the cemetery to the heavy blitzes launched by the Syrian fighter airplanes in April 2015 via explosive barrels. The bombardment led to the destruction of over a third of its overall area.
The statement added that ISIS fighters, currently in command of most of the area, pulled down dozens of headstones showing the names of the buried refugees and the dates when they were born and killed. Reports have, meanwhile, emerged on the intent of ISIS squads to raze the cemetery and wipe out the dead corpses.
The statement called on the Palestinian people from all socio-political spectra to rally round the refugees in war-ragged Syria and to take their responsibilities vis-à-vis the refugees’ plight.
“The life of the Palestinian children who have been cordoned off in the camp is in no way less precious than the body remnants of slain refugees,” it further noted.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities rebuffed a PA appeal to bring the bodies of the two Fatah leaders Khalil al-Wazir and Sa’ad Sayel to burial in the occupied West Bank.
