Nearly 7,000 people flee Yarmouk Camp to neighboring districts: UN

Al Hayat

At least 7,000 people have left the Yarmouk Camp for safe quarters at nearby districts, the official spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stefan Dujarrik announced on Monday.

“As the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports, due to military operations in the Syrian camp of Yarmouk, about 7,000 people (of whom 70% are Palestinian refugees) were moved to the towns of Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahm in the rural part of Damascus,” he said at a briefing.