Yarmouk refugee camp, Damascuss, Syria (UNRWA Photo)
East Jerusalem (IINA) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday warned that up to 10,000 civilians in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, Syria, have gone without food and water for more than a week due to ongoing fighting.
“Credible reports from inside Yarmouk indicate extensive, deliberate fire-damage to homes and other civilian buildings on a scale hardly seen before,” UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said in a statement.
“Whatever supplies of food and water they had, have long been exhausted,” he added. Gunness said that “civilians in Yarmouk are facing starvation and dehydration alongside the heightened risks of serious injury and death from the armed conflict” which has continued unabated for 10 days.
The UN relief agency “strongly deplores the inhumane deprivation” imposed on civilians in Yarmouk, and calls on the individuals and entities involved to cease hostilities, to comply with the obligations under international humanitarian law, according to the statement.
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