'Yarmouk is being annihilated': Palestinians in Syria are left to their fate

Close to Damascus, refugees who survived a siege by Bashar al-Assad’s forces and assault by Isis endure merciless shelling and have ‘no food, electricity or water’

Palestinians with a placard reading ‘Yarmouk camp ... we need you to stop the barrel bombs’ demonstrate in a refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon. Photograph: Mohammed Zaatari/AP

Destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk refugee area of Damascus, Syria. Photograph: Youssef Badawi/EPA

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut

Friday 10 April 2015 15.15 BSTLast modified on Friday 10 April 201516.25 BST

 

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut-Friday 10 April 2015

If they are lucky, Ahmad and his family in the Yarmouk refugee camp will have one meal today: two plates of rice cooked with undrinkable water. Others will have to do with less, perhaps a bowl of spiced water that doubles as a form of soup that will do nothing to ease the all-too-familiar hunger pangs.

'Yarmouk is Being Annihilated' Palestinians in Syria Are Left to Their Fate by Thavam Ratna