PLO says backs Syrian army drive to regain Yarmouk camp from militants

[azurnoir]

Source: Reuters

"They have tried to used the camp as a launching pad to expand their scope of clashes and their terror activities inside and outside the camp," said Ahmad Majdalani, a former minister in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority who was sent to Damascus by the PLO leadership to discuss the crisis with the government.

Majdalani said the Syrian army alongside local Palestinian groups had some success in pushing back the Islamic State and had so far secured 35 percent of the camp.

The sprawling Yarmouk was home to some 160,000 Palestinians before the Syrian conflict began in 2011 -- refugees from the 1948 war of Israel's founding, and their descendents.

Majdalani said there were just 17,500 residents left, with around 2,000 evacuated since the latest round of fighting.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict from Britain, earlier said that Islamic State controlled 90 percent of the camp after defeating fighters mainly from Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis -- a Syrian and Palestinian militia opposed to Assad

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/09/us-midea

[oberliner]

1. Which factions?

Aknaf too?

About what about the FSA?

[azurnoir]

2. what does it say in the article?

[oberliner]

3. Did you not read it?

It doesn't say which factions - which is why I asked the question.

I thought maybe you had read more than just this one article on the subject.

[azurnoir]

4. yes I did I wondered about you but decided to be polite Aknaf is mentioned in the snip BTW

but just imagine the political red meat this be for 'proIsrael' groups in a weeks time