Up to 10,000 civilians in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, Syria, have gone without food and water for more than a week due to ongoing fighting, today warned the United Nations relief agency charged with the well-being of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredible reports from inside Yarmouk indicate extensive, deliberate fire-damage to homes and other civilian buildings on a scale hardly seen before,\u201d according to a statement by Chris Gunness, the spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).<\/p>\n
He said that people are trapped in their homes, hunkered down to avoid being hit by bullets and shrapnel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever supplies of food and water they had have long been exhausted,\u201d Mr. Gunness said.<\/p>\n
He added that \u201ccivilians in Yarmouk are facing starvation and dehydration alongside the heightened risks of serious injury and death from the armed conflict\u201d which has continued unabated for 10 days.<\/p>\n
The UN agency \u201cstrongly deplores the inhumane deprivation\u201d imposed on civilians in Yarmouk, and calls on the individuals and entities involved to cease hostilities, to comply with the obligations under international humanitarian law\u2026<\/p>\n
Read more in un.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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