Aid Convoy Unable to Reach Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria ... 41 Palestinian refugees have died of food and medicine shortages in the camp.

Yarmouk refugee camp:

Palestinian Refugees Starving in Syria

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Published on Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:44

An aid convoy consisting of six trucks loaded with medicine and food were attacked on their way to Yarmouk refugee camp. The convoy was prepared by the PLO and tried to reach the camp  on Monday under UNRWA auspices. It is unclear who attacked the convoy of the much needed humanitarian supplies.

Yarmouk refugee camp has been under siege since last summer and no humanitarian aid organizations, including UNRWA, have not been able to reach the camp since september 2013. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 41 Palestinian refugees have died of food and medicine shortages in the camp.

Before Syria’s civil war began, the camp was home to 150, 000 Palestinian refugees. Today only about 20, 000 Palestinians remain there. Syria is officially home to nearly half a million Palestinian refugees. Since the war broke out in 2011 half of them have been displaced, becoming refugees for a second time.