Unravelling the media spin on Yarmouk #SyriaWar
Friday, April 10, 2015
Linah Alsaafin
Residents in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp tell a very different story of recent violence from the one carried in the mainstream media
A man walks past destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk refugee camp on 6 April 2015 (AFP)
When the Islamic State (IS) group entered Yarmouk in southern Damascus last week, the Palestinian refugee camp was thrust back into the media spotlight.
Caught between the rockets of Syrian government forces and violent militants who have seized territory in northern Syria and Iraq, factions inside Yarmouk, chiefly the Palestinian group Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, fought fierce gun battles with IS.
With concern over the fate of the camp growing, the PLO sent a delegation from the West Bank to Syria to discuss the plight of the refugees with Syrian authorities. An initial statement from PLO official Ahmad Majdalani said that Palestinian factions had agreed to cooperate with Syrian government forces inside the camp to counter IS.
However, another statement released shortly afterwards from the PLO leadership in Ramallah contradicted this, saying that they refused to be drawn into military actions.
in full: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unravelling-media-spin-yarmouk-395625862
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