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ISIL takeover of Palestinian refugee camp is ‘siege within a siege’
Al Jazeera
ISIL takeover of Palestinian refugee camp is ‘siege within a siege’
For almost two years, the regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has been suffocating rebel-held Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee settlement turned residential neighborhood just 10 minutes from Damascus. Water has been cut off, available only when aid groups sneak it in, and medical supplies and food are scarce. Once known as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora, Yarmouk has shrunk from a prewar population of 180,000 to just 18,000.
Read more: 200 people have starved to death since 2013
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