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Targeting a line of four thousand people
Al-Yarmouk camp, the largest Palestinian camp in Syria, is located about 10 KM away fromthe center of Damascus city.
Al-Yarmouk camp is bordered on the east by At-Tadamoun Ad-Damashqi neighborhood, whichis destroyed completely due to the wide and systemic air strikes by the Syrian regime’s warplanes and artillery, while bordered by Al-Hajar Al-Asswad and Yalda on the south. The northof the camp is an entryway of the southern neighborhoods of Damascus city.
The siege of Al-Yarmouk camp has been enforced since 10 July, 2014 when all the entrypoints were closed except for the Northern one, this was followed by an air strikes by theSyrian governments against several areas inside the camp which killed 28 civilians including
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a two-year-old kid and five women according to the SNHR’s documenting team. This led toarmed clashes between the security forces, militias and the popular committees that areaffiliated to PFLP with some factions of the armed opposition who managed to hold the campat the end. Consequently the Syrian regime, in cooperation with its loyal Palestinian militiasclosed the final entry point to start the siege that escalated gradually until it reached itsclimax on 17 July, 2013 when the food and medications have becomestrictly prohibited fromentering the camp.
In light of these rough conditions 185,000 people decided to leave the camp to become IDPsin other areas inside Syria or travel to the neighboring countries.
The lengthy siege evoked some of the residents to steal and loot inside the camp in order tosecure food or medication which was the case in most of the areas that suffered from alengthy siege as we proved in several previous reports. This of course is one of the outcomesthat the Syrian regime hopes to achieve inside the besieged areas.
In this report we documented the shelling by the PFLP against a line of more than 4000people who were waiting for their turn to get aids.
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The PFLP forces have targeted the line of aid distribution in Ar-Rija square in Al-Yarmoukcamp with a mortal shell which killed 7 people at least including a lady and wounded 20others whom most of them are in critical condition.
According to the SNHR investigation thatincluded pictures, videos, and several interviewsthere were no known military target or members of the armed oppositions where the shellingtook place.
Qusai, one of the activists inside Al-Yarmouk camp, talked about the incident to the SNHR:“We were informed that they are about to give away some aids to the residents, so the peoplestarted to gather in thousands and the distribution process started. Between 4:00 and 5:00PM we noticed that there was no presence of any members of the PFLP-GC or the Syrianregime and the security forces who were surrounding the area from the rooftops of the nearbuildings, suddenly and for no reason the line that has more than 4000 civilians, who weremostly women, was attacked by a mortal shell which killed 7 people on the spot”.
FadelAbdulghani, the head of SNHR, says: “the crime of besieging Al-Yarmouk camp andblocking any aids wasn’t enough for the Syrian government; it also terrorized the camp withrapid air strikes through its militias. The Syrian regime is the main responsible of theworsening humanitarian conditions for more than 50 thousand people inside Al-Yarmoukcamp”.
SNHR was able to talk to a member of Al-Yarmouk agency and gave us his account of theincident:
“We were around 4000 in the line waiting for the aids, around 4:30 the distribution washalted and we were asked to go back to the camp, afterwards we were attacked with a mortarshell by members of the PFLP-GC. Seven people were killed and 30 others were woundedhalf of them are clinically dead in light of a very poor medical capabilities.
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The area that the attack targeted was completely empty of any FSA presence; there were onlythe civilians who were waiting for the aids. This incident was apparently a military responseto the FSA killing a member of the PFLP-GC’s militias that were affiliated previously to AhmadJebreel”.
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