Published : 08-09-2017
AGPS correspondent has said that ISIS prevented the students and teachers, residents of Yarmouk Camp in south Damascus, from leaving to Yelda Town, to disable them from learning and teaching at the alternative schools.
Our correspondent added that ISIS members, began preventing who seemed to be at the age of school student, from passing the Yelda-Camp crossing, since the morning and until the early afternoon. 700 students are estimated to be residents of Yarmouk Camp.
ISIS had previously released a statement that prevents teaching outside the areas they control and called on everyone from Yarmouk Camp who want to learn, to enroll in the schools that they supervises inside the camp.
Activists in south Damascus accused ISIS of preventing Yarmouk Camp’s students and teachers from leaving to Yelda for education, saying it is amongst ISIS’s policy to displace the remaining residents of the besieged Camp.
Pointing out that the ongoing war in Syria remains to affect directly the education of the Palestinian refugees living in it. The Syrian conflict has significantly reduced the chances of youth and children to learn, because of the siege, shelling and poor security conditions in the country, as well as ISIS’s tight control of Yarmouk Camp and the policy it follows to restrict its residents.
AGPS correspondent has said that ISIS prevented the students and teachers, residents of Yarmouk Camp in south Damascus, from leaving to Yelda Town, to disable them from learning and teaching at the alternative schools.
Our correspondent added that ISIS members, began preventing who seemed to be at the age of school student, from passing the Yelda-Camp crossing, since the morning and until the early afternoon. 700 students are estimated to be residents of Yarmouk Camp.
ISIS had previously released a statement that prevents teaching outside the areas they control and called on everyone from Yarmouk Camp who want to learn, to enroll in the schools that they supervises inside the camp.
Activists in south Damascus accused ISIS of preventing Yarmouk Camp’s students and teachers from leaving to Yelda for education, saying it is amongst ISIS’s policy to displace the remaining residents of the besieged Camp.
Pointing out that the ongoing war in Syria remains to affect directly the education of the Palestinian refugees living in it. The Syrian conflict has significantly reduced the chances of youth and children to learn, because of the siege, shelling and poor security conditions in the country, as well as ISIS’s tight control of Yarmouk Camp and the policy it follows to restrict its residents.
