Wednesday, April 13, 2016

ISIL on Verge of Seizing Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus

Orient News, a media outlet aligned with the Syrian opposition, has published an article stating the news that the terrorists and murderers of ISIL on the verge of seizing all of Yarmouk for themselves from Al Qaeda's arm in Syria, the infamous Jabhat al-Nusra. They are both surrounded by the Assad regime in the Yarmouk refugee camp. The article indicates that the other rebel factions that used to be in Yarmouk are no longer present there. (April 13, 2016.)

Yarmouk is a suburb of Damascus that was a refugee camp for Palestinians. Before the war it was a flourishing suburb which was the social center for Palestinians in Syria. In December 2012 the Assad regime lost control of Yarmouk. Since then Yarmouk has been besieged by the Assad regime. In early April 2015 somehow the terrorists and murderers of ISIL were able to invade rebel held Yarmouk and now control most of Yarmouk.

It is awful to imagine that there are possibly about six thousands civilians trapped in this divided, surrounded and deprived enclave. Those civilians caught up in this battle do not deserve to be in this terrible situation.

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