(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
The siege imposed by Syrian regime on the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus is 800-day-old now, with180 death cases and 400 days without water and 850 days without electricity, a monitoring group tracks the breaches committed against Palestinians in Syria reported.
Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said 15,500 Palestinians escaped to Jordan, 45 thousand left to Lebanon, and 6,000 went to Egypt since the start of the Syrian revolution in March 2011 and till August 18, 2015.
The group said 36,000 Palestinians arrived Europe in the last four years.
Fighting in and around the camp has left some 18,000 refugees, including 3,500 children, without food, water and medical supplies and prompted aid agencies to urge the warring parties to allow access for aid and evacuations, according to Reuters.
In Sbaineh camp in Damascus countryside, the Syrian regime keeps preventing people from returning to their houses for 639 days, while Daraa camp for Palestinian refugees has been without water for 484 days and 70% of its houses have been destroyed.
There is no way Khan Elsheih camp apart from Zakia-Khan Elsheih road, as all have been cancelled.
Another monitoring group concerned by Palestinian missing and detainees in Syria said 153 prisoners died under torture by Syrian regime while 206 detainees are still missing till the first half of the 2015.
In relevent development, Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk camp, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there.
Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which gained access to residents from the Yarmouk camp for the first time since June in nearby Yalda, where it carried out more than 200 medical consultations.
Typhoid is contracted by drinking or eating contaminated matter and symptoms include nausea, fever, and abdominal pain. Untreated, the disease can lead to complications in the gut and head which can kill up to one in five patients.
"Our concern is that these typhoid cases only represent the tip of the iceberg, because the erosion of health services and appalling public health standards create a massive, massive risk of diseases breaking out," said UNWRA spokesman Chris Gunness.
"The situation is desperate, and suffering may be far more widespread and intense inside the camp," Gunness told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Jerusalem.
The camp, set up close to Damascus in 1957 to house Palestinian refugees, has become a symbol of the desperate plight of people in rebel-held territory since the Syrian government laid siege to it in 2013.
Islamic State fighters attacked the camp in April but withdrew soon afterwards having largely defeated their rival, Aknaf al Maqdis, leaving the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra as the biggest force in the camp.
The Yarmouk camp was home to some 160,000 Palestinians before the Syrian conflict began in 2011, refugees from the 1948 war of Israel's founding and their descendants.
The siege imposed by Syrian regime on the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus is 800-day-old now, with180 death cases and 400 days without water and 850 days without electricity, a monitoring group tracks the breaches committed against Palestinians in Syria reported.
Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said 15,500 Palestinians escaped to Jordan, 45 thousand left to Lebanon, and 6,000 went to Egypt since the start of the Syrian revolution in March 2011 and till August 18, 2015.
The group said 36,000 Palestinians arrived Europe in the last four years.
Fighting in and around the camp has left some 18,000 refugees, including 3,500 children, without food, water and medical supplies and prompted aid agencies to urge the warring parties to allow access for aid and evacuations, according to Reuters.
In Sbaineh camp in Damascus countryside, the Syrian regime keeps preventing people from returning to their houses for 639 days, while Daraa camp for Palestinian refugees has been without water for 484 days and 70% of its houses have been destroyed.
There is no way Khan Elsheih camp apart from Zakia-Khan Elsheih road, as all have been cancelled.
Another monitoring group concerned by Palestinian missing and detainees in Syria said 153 prisoners died under torture by Syrian regime while 206 detainees are still missing till the first half of the 2015.
In relevent development, Typhoid has broken out among residents of the Yarmouk camp, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of further disease outbreaks unless aid reached the camp because of the appalling conditions there.
Eleven cases of typhoid were confirmed by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which gained access to residents from the Yarmouk camp for the first time since June in nearby Yalda, where it carried out more than 200 medical consultations.
Typhoid is contracted by drinking or eating contaminated matter and symptoms include nausea, fever, and abdominal pain. Untreated, the disease can lead to complications in the gut and head which can kill up to one in five patients.
"Our concern is that these typhoid cases only represent the tip of the iceberg, because the erosion of health services and appalling public health standards create a massive, massive risk of diseases breaking out," said UNWRA spokesman Chris Gunness.
"The situation is desperate, and suffering may be far more widespread and intense inside the camp," Gunness told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Jerusalem.
The camp, set up close to Damascus in 1957 to house Palestinian refugees, has become a symbol of the desperate plight of people in rebel-held territory since the Syrian government laid siege to it in 2013.
Islamic State fighters attacked the camp in April but withdrew soon afterwards having largely defeated their rival, Aknaf al Maqdis, leaving the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra as the biggest force in the camp.
The Yarmouk camp was home to some 160,000 Palestinians before the Syrian conflict began in 2011, refugees from the 1948 war of Israel's founding and their descendants.
Zaman Al Wasl
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