Distribution of humanitarian assistance to residents of al-Yarmouk Camp continues

Damascus, SANA – Supported by the Syrian government, General Authority for Palestinian Arab Refugees (GAPAR) has continued to distribute humanitarian aid to residents of al-Yarmouk Camp, Damascus countryside with 1187 food packages were distributed to those besieged by the terrorist organizations.

On March 5th, Anwar Abdul-Hadi, Director of the Political Bureau of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Damascus announced the resumption of aid distribution in the terrorist-besieged Yarmouk Camp after a three-month interruption.

The neighborhood, which is located in southern Damascus city, came under the terrorist organizations’ siege in late 2012, and since then the delivery of humanitarian aid has been repeatedly suspended under incessant attempts by terrorists to disrupt it.

The water of the Camp was purified and becme potable after the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) had received 2500 sterilizing chlorine tablets, Director-General of GAPAR Ali Mustafa told SANA Monday.

He clarified that the distribution operation took place on 5, 6, 7 March in Palestine and Nisreen streets in the camp, in cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Worker Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) under the supervision of the Supreme Committee for Relief.

Mustafa added that the medical team of UNRWA and PRCS medical center treated a number of patients and provided them with the required medicines, noting that 24 patients were taken out of the Camp.

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