The United Nations called Damascus to organize a humanitarian corridor to evacuate the last inhabitants of Yarmouk. The UN official for Refugees visited those who fled the camp on the outskirts of Damascus, camp overrun by the Islamic State this week.
"Today we are very concerned for refugees and civilians who are in Yarmouk said Pierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner General of UNRWA. We are absolutely committed to providing assistance to those who have decided to temporarily leave the camp to seek refuge elsewhere and we will seriously consider the needs also in neighborhoods around the camp. "
After fierce fighting, Daesh expelled hostile militias Bashar al-Assad who held Yarmouk two years. 160,000 Palestinians and Syrians lived here before the war, they are no more than 18,000.
"We the people of the Yarmouk refugee camp, we are civilians, we have children, the sick, tells a woman. There are no medical care here, we have nothing, no water, no food. They need to open humanitarian corridors for us. "
3500 children still live in the camp. The people say that one of the biggest threat is hunger, dozens of people died of starvation, others were reduced to eating grass.
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