Yarmouk Camp initiative enters into force as roadblocks and landmines removed

The initiative to neutralize the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria entered into force in Yarmouk camp Monday when bulldozers began to remove roadblocks as the road has been cleared from landmines, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.

Mahmoud Nassar, activist and relief worker from the camp, says that opening the road is a substantive progress in the initiative. “Yet no one can enter or get out the camp, waiting for a final solution to the crisis,” Nassar added.

 In relevant development, four Palestinians were killed, two of them starved to death, on Sunday in Yarmouk refugee camp.

The Working Group for Palestinians in Syria said in a statement,the death of Ahmed Jumaa and Khaled Abdulhaleem from Yarmouk refugee camp, as a result of dehydration and lack of medical care, raised the number of victims of hunger and blockade up to 105 people, according to ALRAY, Palestinian Media Agency.

In al-Nayrab refugee camp, both Yamen Harb and Fadi Ebwiny were killed as a result of clashes took place in the central prison of Aleppo.

"In addition to clashes erupted between the Syrian Free Army (FSA) and Syrian army on the outskirts of the camp, Deraa refugee camp is still being bombed by the regime war jets for the third day in a row, "the group added.

At least 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Syria conflict, and around 250,000 Palestinian refugees have been forced to leave their homes in Syria due to violence in the country.

Prior to the conflict, 600,000 Palestinian refugees lived in Syria.

Between 7-800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, and today their descendants number around five million, spread across the world.

On Saturday, Leaders of Palestinian factions in al-Yarmouk refugee camp agreed with PFLP-GC representatives to neutralize the refugee camp from the current in-fighting in Syria.

According to the facebook page “Yarmouk Camp News", the agreement provides the withdrawal of the al-Nusra front and non-Palestinian fighters from the refugee camp and the evacuation of their headquarters in addition to allowing a mine detection committee into the camp.

Syrian Army forces combined with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command militias continue to besiege Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus for 210 days, citing the existence of non-Palestinian militants inside.With ALRAY