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hkerby2

I Was Gassed by Bashar al-Assad | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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foreign policy Damascus survivor starvation

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  • hkerby2 on 15 Feb 15
     
    This article is a view of the chemical warfare in Syria from someone who survived the attacks in Damascus. The survivor writes of how joining the OPCW will do nothing in saving and protecting the Syrian people and how by taking away chemical warfare it will jut lead to Assad regimes finding new ways, such as starvation, to kill the innocent people of Syria.
joepouttu

Syria crisis: Government approves aid deliveries, says UN - BBC News - 0 views

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Syria Government Aid

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  • joepouttu on 16 Feb 16
     
    The Syrian government has approved humanitarian access to seven besieged areas, the UN has said. This aid is long overdue, as people have been dying of starvation. 
fcastro2

Syria: Islamic State seizes control of refugee camp near Damascus | World news | The Gu... - 0 views

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syria refugee camp ISIS war

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  • Aid agencies have warned of an urgent humanitarian crisis after Islamist militants seized control of a refugee camp, just a few miles from Damascus, the Syrian capital.
  • Fighters for the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s official Syria wing, advanced into the camp in the town of Yarmouk – home to 18,000 refugees – on Friday night
  • They now control 90% of the camp
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  • The Observatory, which monitors the conflict from the UK, also said jets from Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s air forcebombed the camp on Saturday
  • called the crisis in Yarmouk “an affront to the humanity of all of us, a source of universal shame”.
  • He said Palestinian and Syrian refugees in the camp, which had previously been besieged by Assad’s forces, were already suffering from starvation and disease
  • Their main target was Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, an anti-Assad militia of Syrians and Palestinians from the camp.
  • Reuters that Isis fighters had killed 21 people including fighters and civilians since Friday
  • The evacuation of the camp had been made harder as Isis snipers were shooting refugees as they tried to leave the camp.
  • fcastro2 on 08 Apr 15
     
    ISIS has taken over a refugee camp near Damascus, the Syrian capital. They say they are targeting opposition forces living in the camps. ISIS is making it nearly impossible to evacuate those inside the camp and the UN has called this a major "humanitarian crisis."
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