Residents of Yarmouk queue to receive aid. January 2014. Photo credit: UNRWA
Originally published at The New Arab
Yarmouk refugee camp, on the southern outskirts of Damascus, was once known as the ‘capital of the Palestinian diaspora’.
Ravaged by Syria’s counter-revolutionary war, more than two years after the cessation of local fighting the camp still lies in ruins.
Residents who were forcibly displaced are yet to return, and a new reconstruction plan threatens to make their displacement permanent. Continue reading
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