Published : 02-06-2018
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria reported the testimony of a refugee who miraculously escaped death. The refugee recounted what happened to her and a group of women during the last days of their presence in Yarmouk camp, where they sustained serious injuries due to the heavy shelling that targeted all the neighborhoods of the camp.
"We were a group of women in four cellars in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, when we were hit by two consecutive missiles, causing the death of a woman and wounding 12 other women and five children,” she said. After we were transferred to the hospital, the hospital came under rocket fire, which destroyed the building above the patients. We were about 40 patients and about 11 children died under the rubble.”
The refugee added: “Before we reached the hospital, we lived in the cellars for about two months. We were afraid for our children from the heavy bombardments of the Russian and Syrian warplanes. They used all kinds of weapons, as well as rockets and explosive hoses, each of which destroyed a whole lane with its buildings. At times, hoses were thrown at buildings, destroying them completely, in addition to the continuous bombardments with artillery shells and rockets, which fell in dozens, and the smoke and thermal bombs that affected the children in largely. We were living under the bombardments without water, food, bread, medicine or hygiene kits for children. We did not have any of the ingredients of life.”
Regarding the injuries of women who are now in the Maarrat hospital in north Syria, since about ten days ago, the refugee says:
"One of us was in a coma with a skull fracture. She was the mother of three children who died from the shelling. Her 10-year-old daughter was hit by shrapnel. One patient was still in intensive care so far, and a third suffered from a skull wound and eye and ear injuries. The fourth has a ruptured left shoulder and fractures in the pelvis, the fifth has fractures in the back and is the mother of three children in addition to an infant. The sixth had broken her right hand and put sheets, while a child was hit in the head and fractures in her leg. A child was wounded with shrapnel in the head and eye. A woman was also hit with her mother and seven children, and another woman’s daughter was injured and died with a large number of bruises.”
All refugees now in Maarrat Hospital in north Syria are subject to follow-up treatment according to the hospital facilities, in the absence of any role of UNRWA or the PLO institutions, which are in charge of the Palestinian refugees in Syria.
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria reported the testimony of a refugee who miraculously escaped death. The refugee recounted what happened to her and a group of women during the last days of their presence in Yarmouk camp, where they sustained serious injuries due to the heavy shelling that targeted all the neighborhoods of the camp.
"We were a group of women in four cellars in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, when we were hit by two consecutive missiles, causing the death of a woman and wounding 12 other women and five children,” she said. After we were transferred to the hospital, the hospital came under rocket fire, which destroyed the building above the patients. We were about 40 patients and about 11 children died under the rubble.”
The refugee added: “Before we reached the hospital, we lived in the cellars for about two months. We were afraid for our children from the heavy bombardments of the Russian and Syrian warplanes. They used all kinds of weapons, as well as rockets and explosive hoses, each of which destroyed a whole lane with its buildings. At times, hoses were thrown at buildings, destroying them completely, in addition to the continuous bombardments with artillery shells and rockets, which fell in dozens, and the smoke and thermal bombs that affected the children in largely. We were living under the bombardments without water, food, bread, medicine or hygiene kits for children. We did not have any of the ingredients of life.”
Regarding the injuries of women who are now in the Maarrat hospital in north Syria, since about ten days ago, the refugee says:
"One of us was in a coma with a skull fracture. She was the mother of three children who died from the shelling. Her 10-year-old daughter was hit by shrapnel. One patient was still in intensive care so far, and a third suffered from a skull wound and eye and ear injuries. The fourth has a ruptured left shoulder and fractures in the pelvis, the fifth has fractures in the back and is the mother of three children in addition to an infant. The sixth had broken her right hand and put sheets, while a child was hit in the head and fractures in her leg. A child was wounded with shrapnel in the head and eye. A woman was also hit with her mother and seven children, and another woman’s daughter was injured and died with a large number of bruises.”
All refugees now in Maarrat Hospital in north Syria are subject to follow-up treatment according to the hospital facilities, in the absence of any role of UNRWA or the PLO institutions, which are in charge of the Palestinian refugees in Syria.
