Published : 16-11-2017
The remaining residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp, which are estimated to about 3,000 civilians, called on all the sides of conflict to lift the siege on their camp and allow the entrance of food and medical equipment, as well as allowing them to leave and return to receive treatment and to secure their basic life requirements needed to keep them alive.
This appeal came after the tightening of procedures on the residents of the camp through the closure of all the crossings and barriers leading to it. As a result, all food supplies disappeared from Yarmouk, threatening of a new famine to come and making them prey to hunger, begging ISIS in order to secure the safety of their children. The residents stated that the siege imposed on Yarmouk camp and the southern region negatively affected the civilians of the area, but did not affect the armed groups as they are able to secure their food and passing it through the barriers belonging to the regime, undercovered, according to them.
The Syrian regime continues to impose its suffocating siege on the residents of the towns in south Damascus (Yelda, Babilla, Beit Sahm), through the closure of the Babilla-Sidi Makdad barrier for the third consecutive day. It has also prevented the entry and exit of civilian vehicles to and from it and banned residents from bringing in vegetables, sugar, flour and fuel. It allowed only one piece of bread for each person.
AGPS’s correspondent had previously stated that the siege led to an insane rise in the prices and the loss of some basic commodities such as flour, sugar, rice, mazut and cooking gas, after being monopolized by crisis traders. The people are suffering a real humanitarian disaster as a result of their inability to secure their daily necessities.
The remaining residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp, which are estimated to about 3,000 civilians, called on all the sides of conflict to lift the siege on their camp and allow the entrance of food and medical equipment, as well as allowing them to leave and return to receive treatment and to secure their basic life requirements needed to keep them alive.
This appeal came after the tightening of procedures on the residents of the camp through the closure of all the crossings and barriers leading to it. As a result, all food supplies disappeared from Yarmouk, threatening of a new famine to come and making them prey to hunger, begging ISIS in order to secure the safety of their children. The residents stated that the siege imposed on Yarmouk camp and the southern region negatively affected the civilians of the area, but did not affect the armed groups as they are able to secure their food and passing it through the barriers belonging to the regime, undercovered, according to them.
The Syrian regime continues to impose its suffocating siege on the residents of the towns in south Damascus (Yelda, Babilla, Beit Sahm), through the closure of the Babilla-Sidi Makdad barrier for the third consecutive day. It has also prevented the entry and exit of civilian vehicles to and from it and banned residents from bringing in vegetables, sugar, flour and fuel. It allowed only one piece of bread for each person.
AGPS’s correspondent had previously stated that the siege led to an insane rise in the prices and the loss of some basic commodities such as flour, sugar, rice, mazut and cooking gas, after being monopolized by crisis traders. The people are suffering a real humanitarian disaster as a result of their inability to secure their daily necessities.
