Posted on 05/17/2018 5:32:45 AM PDT by Netz
yrian and Russian forces have launched a large-scale attack on a Palestinian refugee camp under the control of Islamic State, as the regime closed in on the last rebel-held territory in the Syrian capital.
Pro-government troops fired a barrage of air strikes and surface-to-surface missiles into Yarmouk camp in southeast Damascus on Wednesday morning, as they looked to rid the areas of holdout jihadists.
Rebels with the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) agreed to an evacuation deal after the government launched its offensive on April 19, however Isil militants refused to give up their fight. Air strikes have levelled more than 60 per cent of the camp in the last few weeks, leaving the civilians that remain trapped in uninhabitable conditions.
Before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Yarmouk was home to around 160,000 Palestinian refugees - people who had been displaced from their homes in modern-day Israel during the 1948 war, and their descendants. More than 100,000 Syrians also lived in the area.
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You are right. YOu can bet that these are not precision air strikes, but carpet bombing and strafing. The civilian casualties are probably in the tens of thousands.
Hillary Clinton the architect of this genocide is getting a medal from Radcliffe College today. Obama, starting his memoirs. John Kerry still in Cahoots with Iran etc etc.
In short, these are the people responsible for Palestinian lives lost, not Trump or Israel.
Will be interesting to see if any news outlet covers this.
“160,000 Palestinian refugees - people who had been displaced from their homes in modern-day Israel during the 1948 war, and their descendants.”
They’ve already blamed Israel. But notice that Palestinians can never build anything but destruction and ‘refugee camps’.
Thought the mediots said these were peaceful protesters?
None of that.
ISIL brutalized the palestinians in this “ camp” for years and Palestinian militia are fighting with the Syrian army and Russia
The IS militants have been offered weeks of chances to negiotiate, lay down heavy arms, and accept evacuation to northern Syria ... instead they chose to fight and kill. Hopefully they will all be killed. The fighting is not wholesale, the targeting as discriminate as the SAA and RUAF can be in this situation.
They must be healthy people with excellent mental acuity to still remember and care about their homes from 70 years ago. Either that, or the Arab leaders are using the grandchildren of those forced out of Israel by other Arabs as pawns.
More like part of the Syrian govt forces. Once the camp is liberated they will probably be formed into local militia cooperating with the Syrian govt to restore services. Thousands may return home to the camp from Lebanon
Funny how the UN awarded the Palestinian people a special “perma-refugee” status. This means they are officially listed as refugees for all time, requiring resettlement back in Israel (read, destroy Israel).
No other people have been granted this special status.
The UN and other world bodies curry favor with PLO/HAMAS murderers.
Why do I say murderers? Because they kill Israelis and moreover, kill each other on a regular basis.
On a good propaganda day, HAMAS or the PLO manage to provoke Israelis into killing them on TV.
People displaced off their homes eh?
Seems they voluntarily left when the other arab countries told them to voluntarily leave their homes, while they killed all the jews, then once all the jews were dead they could come back and rape and pillage to their hearts delights. Unfortunately (for them), the jews didn’t all die
So will we we get a body count from the media? When DO Palestinians lives matter?
Body count only COUNTS when a Jew defends his life against a PLO/HAMAS/Jihad terrorist or a swarm of them at the fence.
Arab killing Arab is just not talked about save to say that ~500,000 have been killed in the Syrian Civil war. Shhhhhhhhhh!
“people who had been displaced from their homes in modern-day Israel during the 1948 war, and their descendants.”
70 years. 70 flipping years. Chances are there’s almost no one left alive who actually was “displaced”.
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Shooting unarmed civilians at 200 yards from behind a fence is a bit different than going door to door clearing out a terrorist camp, don't you think?
/smh
How can it be discriminate when these bastar*s are hiding among civilian?
Displaced since 1948. That’s 70 years and likely these people were mostly of Syrian descent anyway. So not really refugees.
Sometimes the military does what it has to do
Have you seen the rubble we left behind in Raqqa and Mosul?
That did not happen in Ghouta
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