(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Islamic State's militants were killed on Monday when a rival group opened fire on an ISIS-held territory in Yarmouk refugees camp south of Damascus, source said.
The powerful Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the formerly known Nusra Front, hunted four ISIS members in the western neighborhoods of Yarmouk camp.
Also in the besieged camp, medics said Icterus has spread in the camp as the radical group prevents the entry of food and medicine.
Dr. Idris al-Maqdisi, head of Yarmouk Medical Center told Zaman al-Wasl, tens of families have been trapped amid lack food or basic needs. Some diseases such as chronic stomach and jaundice have spread, he added.
Yarmouk, once a bustling southern suburb of Damascus of 200,000 people, has been starved for two years in a relentless siege by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which has also blocked water supplies for months, a tactic that activists say constitutes the use of water as a tool of war.
Now the remaining 18,000 residents, many of whom suffer from ailments ranging from malnourishment to liver disease and illnesses linked to consuming tainted water, are mired on the frontline of the latest offensive by the terror group Islamic State, which has seized the majority of the camp.
“The situation inside the camp is catastrophic,” said Ahmad. “There is no food or electricity or water, Daesh [Arabic acronym for Isis] is killing and looting the camp, there are clashes, there is shelling. Everyone is shelling the camp.
“As soon as Daesh entered the camp they burned the Palestinian flag and beheaded civilians,” he said.
Activists from the camp say that between 2,000 and 4,000 residents have fled, seeking refuge in nearby villages such as Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem in the Damascus countryside, but those who stayed inside face a grim future.
Food prices have rocketed, with a loaf of bread costing more than $10 (£6.80). Malnourished residents have to walk miles to buy food on the road to Yalda, whose residents are benefiting from a local ceasefire deal between the regime and the opposition. But most residents choose instead to remain in their homes to avoid being killed in the crossfire of clashes, snipers or barrel bombs.
Nearly 200 people are believed to have died in Yarmouk in 2014 due to hunger. Medical supplies are also badly needed, with a lack of equipment, antibiotics and painkillers to treat the wounded, said Salim Salamah, head of the Palestinian League for Human Rights-Syria and a former Yarmouk resident. (With The Guardian)
The powerful Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the formerly known Nusra Front, hunted four ISIS members in the western neighborhoods of Yarmouk camp.
Also in the besieged camp, medics said Icterus has spread in the camp as the radical group prevents the entry of food and medicine.
Dr. Idris al-Maqdisi, head of Yarmouk Medical Center told Zaman al-Wasl, tens of families have been trapped amid lack food or basic needs. Some diseases such as chronic stomach and jaundice have spread, he added.
Yarmouk, once a bustling southern suburb of Damascus of 200,000 people, has been starved for two years in a relentless siege by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which has also blocked water supplies for months, a tactic that activists say constitutes the use of water as a tool of war.
Now the remaining 18,000 residents, many of whom suffer from ailments ranging from malnourishment to liver disease and illnesses linked to consuming tainted water, are mired on the frontline of the latest offensive by the terror group Islamic State, which has seized the majority of the camp.
“The situation inside the camp is catastrophic,” said Ahmad. “There is no food or electricity or water, Daesh [Arabic acronym for Isis] is killing and looting the camp, there are clashes, there is shelling. Everyone is shelling the camp.
“As soon as Daesh entered the camp they burned the Palestinian flag and beheaded civilians,” he said.
Activists from the camp say that between 2,000 and 4,000 residents have fled, seeking refuge in nearby villages such as Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem in the Damascus countryside, but those who stayed inside face a grim future.
Food prices have rocketed, with a loaf of bread costing more than $10 (£6.80). Malnourished residents have to walk miles to buy food on the road to Yalda, whose residents are benefiting from a local ceasefire deal between the regime and the opposition. But most residents choose instead to remain in their homes to avoid being killed in the crossfire of clashes, snipers or barrel bombs.
Nearly 200 people are believed to have died in Yarmouk in 2014 due to hunger. Medical supplies are also badly needed, with a lack of equipment, antibiotics and painkillers to treat the wounded, said Salim Salamah, head of the Palestinian League for Human Rights-Syria and a former Yarmouk resident. (With The Guardian)
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