Victims until today

The Khan Al-Shih camp for Palestinian refugees, in Damascus’s western suburbs, has been grappling with a tough siege for over 30 days. As a result, the refugee population of Khan Al-Shih, estimated at 15,000 displaced Syrians and Palestinians, has run out of basic food and life-saving medicines.

In a renewed and flagrant violation of humanitarian ethics, Syrian regime snipers cold-bloodedly gunned down the relief campaigner Khaled Assaad Al-Khalidi on the Khan Al-Shih—Zakia road as he attempted to fetch bread loafs for the blockade children, women, elderly refugees, and disabled civilians in the camp.

AGPS denounces the repeated crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian refugees in Syria and the inhumane attacks on relief activists, press agents, and unarmed civilians:

• AGPS calls on the international community and all humanitarian and legal institutions to step up pressure on all warring parties in Syria so as to neutralize the Khan Al-Shih camp and protect the disarmed Palestinian refugees from the lavas of explosive barrels and missile strikes rocking the camp for weeks.
• AGPS pushes for lifting the blockade slapped on the camp and allowing a safe passage for basic food items and medicines via the thoroughfares leading to the camp.
• AGPS calls for ceasing offensives on civilians and unpaid assistants in the camp and for allowing a free passage out of and into the camp for relief and humanitarian crews so as to meet the refugees’ urgent needs.