Published : 09-11-2016
Khan Al-Shih Camp, sheltering over 12,000 civilians, including 3,000 children, has been blockaded for 40 days in a row. As a result, refugees have run out of basic food items and relief kit.
The situation is exacerbated even further by a round of military offensives rocking the camp for over a month’s time via machinegun fire, explosive barrels, mortar fire, artillery shelling, missiles, and cluster bombs, among other internationally prohibited weapons. Dozens of refugees were killed and several others have been left wounded in the unbroken onslaughts on the camp.
AGPS on-the-spot correspondents quoted local activists as slamming the silence maintained by the UNRWA, the Palestinian Embassy in Damascus, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) over the tragedy endured by civilians in the camp.
Residents of Khan Al-Shih have frequently sounded distress signals while they simultaneously stressed the arm-free nature of the camp, refuting statements released earlier by member of the PLO Executive Committee Ahmad Majdalani on the presence of gunmen in the camp.
The refugees called on the concerned parties to urgently step in and seriously work on halting the aggressions on the camp and lifting the blockade before it is too late.
The locals voiced deep concern over a projected recurrence of a Yarmouk scenario, which took away the lives of dozens of civilians and left several others without a roof over their heads.
Khan Al-Shih Camp, sheltering over 12,000 civilians, including 3,000 children, has been blockaded for 40 days in a row. As a result, refugees have run out of basic food items and relief kit.
The situation is exacerbated even further by a round of military offensives rocking the camp for over a month’s time via machinegun fire, explosive barrels, mortar fire, artillery shelling, missiles, and cluster bombs, among other internationally prohibited weapons. Dozens of refugees were killed and several others have been left wounded in the unbroken onslaughts on the camp.
AGPS on-the-spot correspondents quoted local activists as slamming the silence maintained by the UNRWA, the Palestinian Embassy in Damascus, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) over the tragedy endured by civilians in the camp.
Residents of Khan Al-Shih have frequently sounded distress signals while they simultaneously stressed the arm-free nature of the camp, refuting statements released earlier by member of the PLO Executive Committee Ahmad Majdalani on the presence of gunmen in the camp.
The refugees called on the concerned parties to urgently step in and seriously work on halting the aggressions on the camp and lifting the blockade before it is too late.
The locals voiced deep concern over a projected recurrence of a Yarmouk scenario, which took away the lives of dozens of civilians and left several others without a roof over their heads.
