Nakba day report: Thousands of Palestinian refugees under siege in Syria

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Source: Albawaba

As Palestinians worldwide on Sunday marked the 68th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe" that occurred during the establishment of the state of Israel, Palestinian refugees displaced a second time by civil war in Syria remained under siege and under threat by ongoing armed fighting.

Some 12,000 people, including 3,000 children, have reportedly been trapped in the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Khan al-Shih near Damascus, amid heavy shelling, barrel bombs, and sniper fire that bombarded the area in recent days, international aid organization Save the Children reported on Friday.

After hostilities escalated, the last remaining road into the camp was shut, blocking essential supplies from entering the increasingly vulnerable refugee population. The camp had been under a partial Syrian regime-imposed siege since 2013.

According to Save the Children, three youths were reportedly shot dead trying to escape the blockaded camp. The press release quoted the head of Save the Children's Syria program as saying: "Despite the supposed ceasefire across the country, people are living in terror of siege and bombardment. People in Khan al-Shih tell us that most medicine, fuel, and flour has almost run out, and food prices have doubled in the past few days."

Read more: http://www.albawaba.com/news/nakba-day-report-thousands-palestinian-refugees-under-siege-syria-841006

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Guess who's blockading them, and shooting them down when they try to escape?

There are more than a million people living under siege in Syria, the vast majority in blockades orchestrated by the Assad government. The blocking of the aid deliveries has raised further questions about the Syrian government’s commitment to allowing aid into besieged areas.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/13/12000-people-trapped-in-syria-refugee-camp-by-bombs-shells-and-bullets

Assad and Russia are orchestrating one of the greatest man-made humanitarian catastrophes of the century, all to relative silence. It's the intentional starvation & slow murder of more than a million people, herded into a contained area and interned there--ring any bells?

And the world is, once again, twiddling its thumbs--except for the parts of the world that are cheerleading it (all hail Dear Leader).

[6chars]

1. can you blame Israel, if not, it's not LBN

[sulphurdunn]

2. Of course not. When Israel

launched the Nakba that drove 750,000 Palestinians into surrounding countries and stole their land it was only like, you know, self-defense.

[Leontius]

3. Give it a fucking rest.

[sulphurdunn]

4. Naw, I don't think I'll be giving

the truth a fucking rest anytime soon, even though it is increasingly off script.

[yourpaljoey]

5. Israel, the land built on sin after sin.

[sulphurdunn]

6. To be honest, Israel is built

on the same kind of sin most colonial nations are. They are unexceptional in that regard, but they are no less guilty of it. God didn't ordain them to dispossess the Palestinians and steal their land anymore than he ordained us to do it to the Indians. The difference is this is now and that was then and the American people support the Israeli now with embarrassing apologetics and billions of public and tax exempt private dollars annually. That's just one more sin to add to the list.