Published : 25-10-2017
The events and civilian figures from Yarmouk camp issued a statement the day before yesterday, to send a humanitarian distress call to all the sides of war in Yarmouk camp, in order to lift the imposed siege on the camp and open the closed “Al-Orouba” crossing - Al-Nakheel Road linking between Yelda and Yarmouk camp. The crossing has been closed for the seventh consecutive day as a result of the clashes that broke out between “Al-Jaish Al-Hur” factions in Yelda and ISIS in Yarmouk camp.
The statement, which reached the Action Group, asserted that the closure of the only humanitarian crossing will aggravate the crisis in Yarmouk camp that started in 2012, in addition to increasing the suffering of the residents.
The events and civilian figures from Yarmouk camp urged those with honorable consciences everywhere to quickly do their duty to rescue the civilians who are not to blame. They are only clinging on to their houses and camps and want nothing more than to live safely and with dignity.
The statement stressed that the camp is once again vulnerable to hunger that has taken the lives of more than 200 people since the siege was imposed on it.
The statement revealed that more than three thousand families are still in the camp, living in non-humanitarian conditions. 35 of these families have been living under ISIS’s siege for more than a month, in the west side of Yarmouk camp that is under Al-Nusra’s control. Their fates are unknown.
The statement described the Yelda barrier as the lifeline for these families, for this is the only way get the food supplies necessary for the lives of their families. Closing it makes life impossible, leading to their death from malnutrition.
The horrible medical situation is no secret, in the absence of the simplest treatment requirements in the camp, from hospitals to doctors to medicine. The closure puts the lives of dozens of patients at danger of death by preventing them from going to the neighboring towns or Damascus city for treatment.
More than 1100 children from the camp are enrolled in the alternative schools in Yelda and were prevented from the only chance of education they had due to the closure of the barrier, which puts them at the risk of ignorance. This risk was faced by the camp’s residents since the siege was imposed in 2012, despite all the harsh conditions surrounding the camp. Why should these innocent children be involved in such conflict?
In a conclusion to its statement the events and civilian figures from Yarmouk camp wished for all the honorable people in the towns and everywhere to be a real extension of their camp and to move fast to put an end to this catastrophe, especially that they lived this suffering before. They called on all sides of the conflict in Yelda and the camp to leave those ten meters, for the length of the front between them is three kilometers according to the statement, in order to keep the residents away from the hell of the conflict, in addition to opening the barriers to enable them to have a chance at life.
The events and civilian figures from Yarmouk camp issued a statement the day before yesterday, to send a humanitarian distress call to all the sides of war in Yarmouk camp, in order to lift the imposed siege on the camp and open the closed “Al-Orouba” crossing - Al-Nakheel Road linking between Yelda and Yarmouk camp. The crossing has been closed for the seventh consecutive day as a result of the clashes that broke out between “Al-Jaish Al-Hur” factions in Yelda and ISIS in Yarmouk camp.
The statement, which reached the Action Group, asserted that the closure of the only humanitarian crossing will aggravate the crisis in Yarmouk camp that started in 2012, in addition to increasing the suffering of the residents.
The events and civilian figures from Yarmouk camp urged those with honorable consciences everywhere to quickly do their duty to rescue the civilians who are not to blame. They are only clinging on to their houses and camps and want nothing more than to live safely and with dignity.
The statement stressed that the camp is once again vulnerable to hunger that has taken the lives of more than 200 people since the siege was imposed on it.
The statement revealed that more than three thousand families are still in the camp, living in non-humanitarian conditions. 35 of these families have been living under ISIS’s siege for more than a month, in the west side of Yarmouk camp that is under Al-Nusra’s control. Their fates are unknown.
The statement described the Yelda barrier as the lifeline for these families, for this is the only way get the food supplies necessary for the lives of their families. Closing it makes life impossible, leading to their death from malnutrition.
The horrible medical situation is no secret, in the absence of the simplest treatment requirements in the camp, from hospitals to doctors to medicine. The closure puts the lives of dozens of patients at danger of death by preventing them from going to the neighboring towns or Damascus city for treatment.
More than 1100 children from the camp are enrolled in the alternative schools in Yelda and were prevented from the only chance of education they had due to the closure of the barrier, which puts them at the risk of ignorance. This risk was faced by the camp’s residents since the siege was imposed in 2012, despite all the harsh conditions surrounding the camp. Why should these innocent children be involved in such conflict?
In a conclusion to its statement the events and civilian figures from Yarmouk camp wished for all the honorable people in the towns and everywhere to be a real extension of their camp and to move fast to put an end to this catastrophe, especially that they lived this suffering before. They called on all sides of the conflict in Yelda and the camp to leave those ten meters, for the length of the front between them is three kilometers according to the statement, in order to keep the residents away from the hell of the conflict, in addition to opening the barriers to enable them to have a chance at life.
