Posted on 05/09/2017 7:04:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
AL RUKBAN REFUGEE CAMP — Some 80,000 people are trapped in a scrub land of hopelessness in a forgotten corner of the Middle East.
NBC News was given unique access to the area where Rukban straddles a rocky, arid no man's land along the border linking Syria and Jordan — an important American ally, and a key member of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.
The sea of tattered tents, the barefoot women and begging children, along with the burn victims being treated nearby at Rukban are all proof that the desperate crisis is beyond the reach of aid workers.
Last year, an ISIS suicide bomber killed seven Jordanian soldiers at a military base located less than a mile away.
That resulted in Jordan preventing all but a handful of refugees from crossing its borders — and declared the area a "closed military zone."
There have been regular attacks this year and daily gunbattles inside the camp, according to Kafawin. He estimates that up to five percent of its residents — about 4,000 people — may be militants.
Syria's government lost control of this area years ago, and its border posts lie empty. Rebels opposed to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad control the neighboring region.
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STOP this nonsense.
Oh I have a news exclusive:
THEY ARE IN ALL THE CAMPS!
So where is my Pulitzer?
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