Abbas orders Immediate Food Supplies to Yarmouk Camp in Syria
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RAMALLAH, December 28, 2013 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas ordered
Saturday dispatch of immediate food supplies to Yarmouk refugee camp in
Syria due to the difficult situation the camp is going through.

Abbas ordered Palestine’s ambassador to Syria and other official parties to
immediately act to facilitate entry of these supplies.

The president’s decision came following reports that five Palestinian
refugees have died of hunger in the besieged camp.

Yarmouk has been under siege by the Syrian army for several months. No one
has been allowed in or out of the camp since then, including the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, which is
responsible for all Palestinian refugee camps in the region.

UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo Grandi said in an earlier appeal that
“humanitarian conditions in the besieged refugee camp of Yarmouk are
worsening dramatically and that we are currently unable to help those
trapped inside.”

He said that the situation has progressively deteriorated since the camp,
the largest refugee camp in Syria, was engulfed in the Syria conflict a year
ago and that 20,000 Palestinians remain trapped inside it.

“Although very alarming reports of hardship and hunger have continued to
multiply, since September 2013 we have been unable to enter the area to
deliver desperately needed relief supplies,” he said.

M.S.