18,000 Palestine refugees in Yarmouk are under siege. Since January 18, we have managed to deliver 6,528 food parcels, 10,000 polio vaccines and a range of other medical supplies to civilians inside the camp. However, we enjoy partial humanitarian access and so we continue pushing for safe, substantial and continuous humanitarian access. When you donate, you feed, nourish, heal and save.
UNRWA
Of course, this is a humanitarian outrage, but it pisses me off, though. Our government takes our taxes to support Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and then the United Nations asks us to send them money to take care of the resulting refugees. Why doesn't the United Nations demand Israel stop creating refugees and the US stop funding it? Reverse the settlements, end the occupation, and relocate the Palestinians to Palestine?It is a vision of unimaginable desolation: a crowd of men, women and children stretching as far as the eye can see into the war-devastated landscape of Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.
A photograph released on Wednesday by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, shows the scene when thousands of desperate Palestinians trapped inside the camp on the edge of the Syrian capital emerged to besiege aid workers attempting to distribute food parcels.
More than 18,000 people are existing under blockade inside Yarmouk, enduring acute shortages of food, medicines and other essentials. Much of the camp has been destroyed by shelling, and attempts to deliver aid to those inside have been hampered by continued fighting in Syria's three-year-old civil war.
Guardian
And stop the drone bombing in Syria.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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