Hamas holds Gaza march for besieged Yarmuk refugees

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Source: AFP

Khan Yunis (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Hundreds rallied Saturday in the Gaza Strip in support of thousands of fellow Palestinians trapped in Syria's Yarmuk camp, which has been largely overrun by jihadist fighters.

Hundreds, many waving Hamas flags, took to the streets in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis in a march organised by the militant Islamic movement, the de facto power in the coastal enclave.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat, a senior official in Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's West Bank-based administration, decried in a statement "the persecution and slaughtering of Palestinian refugees... in a conflict that isn’t theirs."

"Reports of kidnappings, beheadings and mass killings are coming out from Yarmuk, which is under a brutal campaign of murder and occupation at the hands of the terrorist group of Daesh and its allies," he said.


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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. What a mess.

That camp used to have 150,000 people in it, now it has about 18,000. There's been fighting off and on there throughout the civil war.

Many of the Palestinians there supported the uprising, as did Hamas, which led to tensions with Iran, which had supported both Hamas and the Assad regime.

Now, the Palestinians in Yarmouk have ISIS breathing down their necks and the prospect of countless regime barrel bombs to come. It would be a good time to get the hell out of there if they can.