ISIS slaughter inside gates of Damascus
Seizes Palestinian camp with reports of beheadings, mass killings
Published: 6 hours ago
The terror group ISIS has taken over a Palestinian refugee camp inside Damascus, only miles from the presidential palace of Syria’s Bashar Assad with reports of mass killing and beheadings.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group said the Islamist militants have taken over 90 percent of Yarmouk, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital.
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“Reports of kidnappings, beheadings and mass killings are coming out from Al-Yarmouk,” said Saeb Erekat, an member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s executive committee, Saturday evening. “The priority must be to save the Palestinian refugees in the camp by creating a safe passage for them out of the death trap that Al-Yarmouk has become.”
He called on the United Nations, the International Committee for the Red Crescent and the Syrian government to help evacuate civilians.
The main group fighting ISIS inside the camp is Aknaf Beit al-Makdis, an offshoot of Hamas. Two opposition sources told the Financial Times the Syrian army had allowed a Palestinian militia allied to Assad’s forces to send weapons to the Hamas offshoot fighting in Yarmouk.
The Sunni ISIS group struck an alliance with rival jihadi group Jabhat al-Nusra, to wrest control of Yarmouk from the rebels loyal to Hamas, which had been fighting against regime troops.
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The U.N. expressed concern about the situation in the refugee camp which was once home to between 100,000 and 150,000 Palestinians and Syrians, and now holds about 18,000.
“The situation in Yarmouk is an affront to the humanity of all of us, a source of universal shame,” U.N. Relief and Works Agency spokesman Chris Gunness told Reuters.
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