Published : 20-05-2018
The residents of the Yarmouk camp, besieged by the warring parties in the camp, appealed for a humanitarian truce and a cessation of shelling, to open humanitarian corridors to rescue the victims trapped under the rubble of houses, and to evacuate the wounded to the hospitals in the southern region or to the hospitals in the capital Damascus.
Activists and a number of camp residents said in letters sent to the Action Group, "We are the ones who remain from the civilians inside Yarmouk camp. We are demanding the opening of a safe corridor for a few hours only, to remove the civilians stranded in the destroyed houses and cellars without water, drinks and medicine.
The letters confirmed that there are still people stuck and missing under the rubble in need of your voice and participation, and that the people of Yarmouk camp are dying of starvation because of the bombardments and the war.
The civilians called on the local and international international and humanitarian organizations, to pressure all warring parties to open humanitarian corridors, and to bring in cadres of ambulance and civil defense teams. to help evacuate the wounded and the elderly, and exhume the bodies from the rubble of the destroyed neighborhoods.
It is worth mentioning that the health and medical situation in Yarmouk camp is deteriorating. All the clinics and hospitals in the camp are not functioning because of their destruction, as well as the lack of medical supplies and the absence of specialized medical personnel, due to the continued regime army’s roadblocks and the tight siege imposed by it and the Popular Front - General Command groups since mid 2013, in addition to ISIS’s control over large areas of the camp since the beginning of April 2015.
In a similar context, conflicting reports suggest an agreement between the Syrian and Russian regimes and ISIS in south Damascus, which rules for a ceasefire and the evacuation of ISIS from the region.
The Russian RT agency said that the agreement between the government forces and ISIS in the south of Damascus, comes into force at 12 o'clock today, and will continue until 5am on Sunday. The armed groups would then withdraw completely from the area.
Media sources close to the Palestine Liberation Army (PLO) and others close to the Syrian regime also confirmed the ceasefire agreement and the complete withdrawal of ISIS from Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and Yarmouk camp, in the direction of two areas agreed upon with the Syrian regime.
The official SANA news agency denied the news and quoted a military source as saying: "There is no agreement between the Syrian Arab Army and terrorist group ISIS in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and the transfer of news is inaccurate.”
The residents of the Yarmouk camp, besieged by the warring parties in the camp, appealed for a humanitarian truce and a cessation of shelling, to open humanitarian corridors to rescue the victims trapped under the rubble of houses, and to evacuate the wounded to the hospitals in the southern region or to the hospitals in the capital Damascus.
Activists and a number of camp residents said in letters sent to the Action Group, "We are the ones who remain from the civilians inside Yarmouk camp. We are demanding the opening of a safe corridor for a few hours only, to remove the civilians stranded in the destroyed houses and cellars without water, drinks and medicine.
The letters confirmed that there are still people stuck and missing under the rubble in need of your voice and participation, and that the people of Yarmouk camp are dying of starvation because of the bombardments and the war.
The civilians called on the local and international international and humanitarian organizations, to pressure all warring parties to open humanitarian corridors, and to bring in cadres of ambulance and civil defense teams. to help evacuate the wounded and the elderly, and exhume the bodies from the rubble of the destroyed neighborhoods.
It is worth mentioning that the health and medical situation in Yarmouk camp is deteriorating. All the clinics and hospitals in the camp are not functioning because of their destruction, as well as the lack of medical supplies and the absence of specialized medical personnel, due to the continued regime army’s roadblocks and the tight siege imposed by it and the Popular Front - General Command groups since mid 2013, in addition to ISIS’s control over large areas of the camp since the beginning of April 2015.
In a similar context, conflicting reports suggest an agreement between the Syrian and Russian regimes and ISIS in south Damascus, which rules for a ceasefire and the evacuation of ISIS from the region.
The Russian RT agency said that the agreement between the government forces and ISIS in the south of Damascus, comes into force at 12 o'clock today, and will continue until 5am on Sunday. The armed groups would then withdraw completely from the area.
Media sources close to the Palestine Liberation Army (PLO) and others close to the Syrian regime also confirmed the ceasefire agreement and the complete withdrawal of ISIS from Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and Yarmouk camp, in the direction of two areas agreed upon with the Syrian regime.
The official SANA news agency denied the news and quoted a military source as saying: "There is no agreement between the Syrian Arab Army and terrorist group ISIS in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and the transfer of news is inaccurate.”
