Dozens of Palestinians who fled the embattled camp of Yarmouk, near Damascus, demonstrated Monday in solidarity with their friends and family trapped between warring sides.
“Save the [Yarmouk] camp,” the crowd cried out during a sit-in outside the offices of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the southern city of Sidon.
“We are not with [the rebels] nor with [Syrian President Basahar Assad’s forces],” they chanted. “We want to return to our camp.”
The protesters handed a letter to UNRWA’s Sidon chief Ibrahim Khatib, urging food aid to reach Yarmouk’s remaining 18,000 refugees, now caught in the crossfire between the jihadis, rival rebels, and government forces.
The Yarmouk camp, once home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in Syria, has been cut off from food and supplies they desperately need.
The letter also urged help in securing a safe passage for those trapped in Yarmouk.
