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Monday 04 May 2015 - 12:24 Makkah mean time-15-7-1436
Yarmouk refugee camp (Google image)
Ramallah (IINA) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said over 3,500 Palestinian children are stranded in Syria's flashpoint Yarmouk camp for refugees.
"There are some 3,500 children stranded in the camp, while the sick and the elderly continue to die from lack of medical care," UNRWA spokesman Sami Mshasha said during a Sunday press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
He said that some 90 percent of Yarmouk's 180,000 Palestinian residents fled the camp, which has seen violent clashes between the Islamic State (IS) militants and Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis militant group for over a month.
Moreover, Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime forces routinely drop barrel bombs on the beleaguered camp, according to UNRWA.
"The situation in Yarmouk camp is indescribably tragic," Mshasha said.
"The UNRWA has repeatedly urged the Syrian regime to stop striking the camp indiscriminately with highly-destructive barrel bombs which results in civilian casualties as well as massive destruction."
Militants affiliated with IS entered Yarmouk camp in early April, triggering clashes with Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis militant group inside the camp.
Several international humanitarian organizations have voiced their incapability to offer aid to around 18,000 residents who were unable to leave the camp as clashes rage on between the two militant groups.
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