Syria’s Starving Hordes: In A Biblical Picture of Suffering, Crowd Stretching For As Far As The Eye Can See Gathers Amid The Rubble Of Damascus For UN Food Hand-Outs

• Yarmouk, the Palestinian area of Damascus has been sealed to the outside world on and off since July
• These photographs show the first food parcel arrival in Yarmouk for months, hundreds lining in the streets
• Yarmouk may yet again cut off from humanitarian aid following clashes in Syria’s capital, UN reports
• Today, 175 rebel and foreign fighters were killed in a Syrian army ambush near Damascus

By Sara Malm / Daily Mail On-Line

Hundreds of men, women and children fight to get to the front of the queue as a refugee camp in Damascus receives food parcels after being cut off for months.

Today the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) called on rebel forces and Al-Assad’s troops alike to allow ‘safe and unhindered humanitarian access’ to thousands of civilians in Yarmouk, a Palestinian district in the Syrian capital.

Yarmouk has seen some of the worst fighting in the capital, leading to severe food shortages and widespread hunger.

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UNWRA chief Chris Gunnes spoke today after a rare visit to Yarmouk on Monday where relief agencies have found it particularly difficult to provide food and medical assistance. 

The Yarmouk Camp is a 0.8sq.mi. district of Damascus populated by more than 112,000 Palestinian refugees, who are mainly cut off from any foreign help.

Yarmouk Camp has been sealed since July 2013, resulting in acute and widespread deprivation, including severe malnutrition, while civilian residents are constantly exposed to the threat of death, injuries and trauma of the armed conflict.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568251/UN-calls-Syrian-warring-sides-allow-aid-flow.html#ixzz2uSNkcDHn 
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