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STORY: SYRIA / YARMOUK CAMP
TRT: 0:49
SOURCE: UNWRA / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 24 FEBRUARY 2014, 30 JANUARY 2014, YARMOUK, CAMP, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
FILE – UNRWA - 24 FEBRUARY 2014, YARMOUK, CAMP, DAMASCUS SYRIA
1. Wide shot, pan from ruins down to queue
FILE – UNRWA - 30 JANUARY 2014, YARMOUK, CAMP, DAMASCUS SYRIA
2. Women walking among ruins up to distribution point
3. UNRWA workers handing parcels to camp inhabitants at distribution point
4. Men in queue, including man in wheelchair, to distribution point
5. Young girl eating sandwich given at distribution point
FILE – UNRWA - 24 FEBRUARY 2014, YARMOUK, CAMP, DAMASCUS SYRIA
6. Close shot of women and children in queue
7. Men on truck with supplies at distribution point
8. Aid workers carrying UNRWA parcels at distribution point
9. Aid workers offloading parcels from truck
The United Nations agency charged with ensuring the well-being of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East has warned today (30 June) that, despite reports of a truce between the Syrian Government and armed groups inside Yarmouk camp, it is still unable to carry out humanitarian operations there.
UNRWA said it has been a month since the last distribution inside the camp, adding that the UN Agency is urgently seeking the resumption and expansion of its humanitarian activities inside the camp, where conditions remain dire for the 18,000 civilians trapped there.
The agency added that it stands ready to implement a rapid humanitarian response so that the immediate and longer-term needs of the civilians of Yarmouk can be met.
UNRWA noted that it will continue to advocate for continuous, substantial and safe humanitarian access to Yarmouk, and to ensure the protection of Palestinian and Syrian civilians.
Prior to the armed conflict in Syria, which began in March 2011, Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, was home to over 160,000 Palestine refugees.
Since December 2012, fighting has caused at least 140,000 Palestine refugees to flee their homes in Yarmouk, as armed opposition groups established a presence in the area, with Government forces controlling the periphery.
