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March 1, 2014
Thousands of people are besieged in the two square kilometre Yarmouk
camp. Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), visited
the war-torn district this week. He reported a lack of aid, access and
most of all international leadership to achieve a political solution
specifically in relation to the Palestinian community.
With a strategic location, and therefore devastatingly vulnerable to
armed groups in their endeavour to gain leverage in Damascus, this
triangular district pointing towards the heart of Syria's capital city
is the only witness to the empty, hopeless gazes of people who have been
exhausted to the point of submission. Their questions and cries for
help have fallen on deaf ears internationally; they have nobody and
nowhere to turn to. Hope has disappeared, as international lethargy and
lack of leadership on the breaking the siege on Yarmouk has resulted in a
deadlock in negotiations over access for humanitarian assistance. An
already vulnerable community has been marginalised further.
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