The Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp near the Syrian capital Damascus are facing great difficulties in securing basic food needs including bread clean water and fuel for heating and cooking.
According to the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria the Yarmouk residents appealed to all concerned parties to supply them with bread and water because there is no transportation means to leave the camp to purchase their basic needs.
The residents also expressed fears to leave the camp during the coronavirus pandemic.
They called on UNRWA and the Palestinian institutions and factions to take care of them provide them with medicines and health and social services open medical centers and spray disinfectants throughout the camp.
There are dozens of families and children still living in different neighborhoods of the destroyed Yarmouk camp.
During the Syrian civil war the Yarmouk camp became the scene of intense fighting in 2012 between the Free Syrian Army and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) which was supported by Syrian regime forces.
During later years the camp was taken over and attacked by different warring parties and was deprived of supplies resulting in hunger diseases and a high death rate forcing the majority of the residents to leave.
The Action Group also said that the Dera’a refugee camp another war-torn Palestinian area in Syria lacks a medical center and its residents do not have access to any health services of any kind.
The only UNRWA medical center which used to provide Dera’a refugees with health services needs major repairs.
