Page 54 - A Helping Hand for Refugees

In the 21 Century, a time of advanced democracy when human
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rights are recognized across the world, people in Syria's refugee camps
are facing death under the most terrible conditions. One of these camps,
where there is such suffering and where some people have not eaten
for months, is Yarmouk near Damascus. Human values in the
Yarmouk Refugee Camp, which has been blockaded by forces loyal to
Syrian regime for the last six months, are being brushed aside. The
refugees under blockade in the camp are hungry and thirsty, reduced
to mere skin and bone.

The Yarmouk camp was set up out of a desire to protect Pales-

tinians in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war in 1957. Today, however, the
purpose serves a diametrically opposed end. The camp is about to turn
into a graveyard for the thousands of innocent Palestinians living there.

The global public has thus far remained silent in the face of nearly
100 people dying of starvation and poverty, and has literally turned a

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