Nearly four years after Harry’s Place began posting about the suffering and repression of the Palestinians in Yarmouk Camp near Damascus (see also here, here, here, here and here), the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has finally got around to taking more than a passing interest in them too (their being Palestinians and all).
Of course the PSC glosses over the role of the Syrian regime, certain Palestinian factions, and now the Islamic State in the Yarmouk catastrophe and manages to put the blame on… guess who?
Palestinians in Yarmouk are unable to return to their homeland because Israel denies them that right, granted to them by UN Resolution 194. PSC calls on the international community to exert pressure on Israel, through sanctions, to abide by international law, end the occupation, end the siege on Gaza, and allow all Palestinian refugees, including those in Yarmouk, the right to return.
The Assad regime for years has succeeded in keeping food, water and medicine from reaching Yarmouk, but couldn’t keep out IS?
