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Palestinians: The Atrocities No One Talks About
Gatestone Institute ^ | 6/2/18 | Khaled Abu Toameh

Posted on 02/12/2018 5:21:45 PM PST by Eleutheria5

A Palestinian refugee camp has been under siege for more than 1,660 days. Hundreds of the camp residents have been killed, while tens of thousands have been forced to flee from their homes.

Those who have remained in the camp -- mostly the elderly, women and children -- live in unspeakable sanitary conditions and drink polluted water.

More than 200 Palestinians from the camp, which has been under siege since 2103, have died as a result of lack of food or medicine. The conditions in the refugee camp, by any standard, are horrific.

Why have most of us not heard about the hair-raising "living" conditions that characterize this camp? Because it is not located in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.

The name of the camp is Yarmouk, and it is located about five miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus.

More than 100,000 Palestinians used to live in the 2.11 square-kilometer Yarmouk camp before the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.

By the end of 2014, the number of the camp residents had plummeted to 13,000.

Since 2012, the camp has been the scene of intense fighting among various parties: the Syrian opposition forces, the Syrian Army and its allies in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a Palestinian terror group headed by Ahmed Jibril, and Islamic State (ISIS).



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The lives of the Palestinian residents of the camp have been turned into hell.

It is not as if before conditions inside the camp were good. There were times when the Syrian Army and the PFLP-GC used heavy artillery to bomb houses and schools, thereby killing scores of residents, including women and children.

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(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...


TOPICS: Egypt; Extended News; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: atrocities; egypt; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; palestinians; refugeecamp; russia; siege; syria; waronterror; yarmouk
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1 posted on 02/12/2018 5:21:46 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Can’t we blame the Israelis?


2 posted on 02/12/2018 5:27:50 PM PST by caver
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To: Eleutheria5

Inshallah.


3 posted on 02/12/2018 5:29:37 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: caver

Or the Amish.


4 posted on 02/12/2018 5:32:55 PM PST by dirtymac
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To: Eleutheria5

Below I am going to list all of my sympathies for the “Palestinians”:


5 posted on 02/12/2018 5:33:12 PM PST by datura
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To: Eleutheria5

Thats what happens to people when their leaders shoot at the king and miss ( except in Jordan where they killed the king)

Hafez al Assad was not amused by their attempt to overthrow his government and they have been rebel scum ever since

Perhaps they should have packed their asses and ridden down to Gaza


6 posted on 02/12/2018 5:36:28 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Eleutheria5

If you can’t take care of yourselves then go extinct


7 posted on 02/12/2018 5:45:29 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Eleutheria5

I need more butter on my popcorn....great show by the way...will there be a sequel?


8 posted on 02/12/2018 5:48:57 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Eleutheria5
Since 2103???

WTF???

9 posted on 02/12/2018 5:49:37 PM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: Eleutheria5

Wait, I need to go hunt up my tiny violin...


10 posted on 02/12/2018 5:50:31 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Eleutheria5

These people aren’t very bright. I would have dragged my family elsewhere long ago.


11 posted on 02/12/2018 5:51:52 PM PST by umgud
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To: Eleutheria5

Insulallah. Satan hates his little palestinians. Useful idiots is all they are to him.


12 posted on 02/12/2018 5:52:28 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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More than 200 Palestinians from the camp, which has been under siege since 2103, have died as a result of lack of food or medicine.

Let's forget the time traveling, though it's intriguing ("since 2103").

I'll assume 2013. Five years, 200 dead out of a population of 100,000.

Works out to 40 per year, about 3.2 per month. Less than one a week in an active war zone.

Far better odds than Chicago, I reckon.

Not to sound callous, but the authors are expecting their audience to be total idiots.

It's also a given that virtually anywhere in the Middle East is a sucking pusshole unless you're a multi-millionaire, but these folks seem to be doing pretty well. Unless you're one of the 200.

13 posted on 02/12/2018 5:56:23 PM PST by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: Eleutheria5

They should move to Jordan.


14 posted on 02/12/2018 6:40:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Eleutheria5
Not this "camp" crap again!

It's part of a city!

15 posted on 02/12/2018 6:46:29 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Eleutheria5. Israel renewed as a nation in 1948 -- hence "refugees" is a BS term.

16 posted on 02/12/2018 7:25:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: dirtymac
Or the Amish.

What?? Hey! Oh, wait. I thought you’d said the Irish.

Not even other Arabs want to live next to Palestinians. Peaceful coexistence is impossible with these people. Every diplomat knows that peace talks with them are doomed before they start. They only persist because it provides permanent employment for them.

17 posted on 02/12/2018 7:34:33 PM PST by stormhill
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They should move to Jordan.

U serious bro?
Look up Black September.

18 posted on 02/12/2018 7:41:45 PM PST by stormhill
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To: Eleutheria5
More than 200 Palestinians from the camp, which has been under siege since 2103, have died as a result of lack of food or medicine. The conditions in the refugee camp, by any standard, are horrific.

More than 100,000 Palestinians used to live in the 2.11 square-kilometer Yarmouk camp before the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.

Here's what I don't get:

- 2013 was five years ago.

- Since 2013, 200 people in this camp "have died as a result of lack of food or medicine."

- The population of this camp at its peak was 100,000 people.

In an average city of 100,000 people in the U.S. or any other advanced country, how many people would die over the course of five years of ordinary causes? I would assume that it's far more than 200!

19 posted on 02/12/2018 7:44:55 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: stormhill

OK, have them move to SA.


20 posted on 02/12/2018 7:46:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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