Excellency,
In follow up to the emergency consultations of the Security Council on 6 April, I convey once again the grave concerns of the Palestinian leadership about the dire situation of Palestine refugees in Syria as a result of the ongoing armed conflict there. In particular, we continue to call the international community’s attention to the humanitarian catastrophe in the Yarmouk refugee camp.
As indicated in the briefing to the Security Council by the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Mr. Pierre Krähenbühl, the situation in the Yarmouk refugee camp has precipitously deteriorated following the 2 April takeover of the camp by terrorists affiliated with ISIL and other terror groups. It is a situation constituting a direct threat to the lives of the nearly 18,000 Palestine refugees that remain in the camp of the original 160,000 residents. Refugees are suffering death and injury, as well as further destruction of their homes, dispossession and displacement, as the wanton violence rages around them. [Read more…]
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