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DOSSIER – On February 24, 2014, a photo of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) shows damage and debris in one main streets of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk Damascus, Syria AP Photo / UNRWA, brief
The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Pierre Krahenbuhl, visited Yarmouk camp on Tuesday , in southern Damascus, which was pulverized in the Syrian conflict. "A visit to Yarmouk is a very moving experience: you can not escape a deep shock of destruction," he told reporters after a first visit to the Palestinian refugee camp for several years.
"The magnitude of the destruction in Yarmouk is comparable to the few things I have seen for many years of humanitarian work in the conflict zones," Krahenbuhl said. clear that for Palestine refugees, the big question is the prospect of a return to Yarm, "added the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
A statement issued by the agency said it offered "vital services to some 10,000 Palestinian refugees" and was trying to return to the heavily damaged neighborhood.
The Syrian Army announced on 21 May that she totally controlled Damascus after a month-long badault that drove the jihadist group from the Islamic State of Yarmouk and the surrounding districts south of the capital.
Yarmouk was once a flourishing district of the capital, home to some 160,000 refugees alestinians as well as Syrians. Most of its population fled the waves of fierce fighting that swept the camp in 2012 and 2015.
Mohamed Abdi Adar, UNRWA chief for Syria, said that nearly 25,000 Palestinian refugees were affected by the latest conflict between the regime and the rebels. since last month in the southern region of Daraa.
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