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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Palestinians in Syria

Talal Naji (R), secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, speaks during a meeting of Palestinian faction leaders in Damascus, Syria, on October 11, 2023. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
May 3, 2025, 8:05 pm
PFLP-GC terror group says leader was arrested by Syrian authorities
Small terrorist faction, which was allied with ousted Assad regime, says it reached out to PA’s Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal ‘to request their urgent intervention’
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this January 31, 2014 file photo released by UNRWA, shows residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, lining up to receive food supplies, in Damascus, Syria. (UNRWA via AP, File)
February 23, 2023, 9:00 pm
German court convicts Palestinian man for 2014 war crime, murder in Syria
Moafak D., 55, sentenced to life in prison for launching grenade into crowd of civilians waiting for food in Damascus, killing four
By AP
People walk under Palestinian flags in Yarmouk camp in Damascus Syria that has seen heavy fighting during the civil war, Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
November 17, 2022, 10:09 am
Some Palestinians return to Syria’s war-battered Yarmouk camp
Syrian government opens Damascus-area camp — where some 1.2 million people lived before the 2011 civil war — for a rare visit by journalists to highlight its push for returnees
By ABBY SEWELL
Syrian Soldiers ride a scooter through a devastated part of the in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
November 7, 2018, 8:02 am
Syria says planning for Palestinians to return to Yarmouk after IS ousted
Refugee camp in southern Damascus, once home to 160,000, was largely abandoned after Islamic State captured it in beginning of civil war
By AFP
Men walk past destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 6, 2015. (AFP/ YOUSSEF KARWASHAN)
April 18, 2018, 5:12 pm
Syrian troops, allied Palestinians look to drive IS from Damascus
After expelling rebels from eastern Ghouta with a suspected gas attack, Assad forces and Palestinian Resistance Factions Coalition urge deal to send terrorists near Israel border
By Agencies
Palestinian refugees from Syria's Yarmouk refugee camp sit on mattresses inside a school as they prepare for their official exams for the 9th grade in the capital Damascus, on May 20, 2015. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)
January 9, 2017, 6:49 pm
UN appeals for funds for Palestinians caught up in Syria war
$411 million needed for half a million refugees in Syria in ‘critical need’ and 47,000 others in Jordan, Lebanon
By AFP
Men walk past destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 6, 2015. AFP (photo credit:/YOUSSEF KARWASHAN)
April 8, 2015, 4:08 pm
Syrian minister calls for military op in Yarmouk
Damascus regime, which in the past bombed the Palestinian camp, says it wants to save residents from Islamic State
By AFP
Demonstrators gather along Syria's border with Israel before trying to cut through a line of barbed wire and head into the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, as seen from the Druze village of Majdal Shams, on June 5, 2011 (Flash90)
May 7, 2013, 12:22 pm
Syria vows to retaliate for any future Israeli attack
Assad regime grants Palestinians permission to strike at Israel from Golan, state daily reports
By Elhanan Miller
Civilians walk past vehicles destroyed by fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)
From the WebDecember 21, 2012, 2:22 pm
Twice-exiled Palestinians flee Syria for Lebanon
13,000 members of refugee community have already headed south in the wake of attacks from the Assad regime, The Daily Star reports
A Syrian soldier aims his rifle at Free Syrian Army fighters during clashes in the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (photo credit: SANA/AP)
December 20, 2012, 1:54 pm
Palestinian refugees trickle back to Damascus camp
After gun battles between government and rebel forces face away, Yarmouk residents return to their war-ravaged homes
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
December 19, 2012, 1:19 pm
Abbas offers to take in Palestinian refugees from Syrian civil war
PA president tells UN chief Ban Ki-moon that refugees could find shelter in the West Bank or Gaza Strip; ‘Even if we open our borders, no one would come across it,” says Israeli FM official
Civilians walk past vehicles destroyed by fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)
December 18, 2012, 11:28 am
Rebels fight pro-Assad Palestinians in Damascus suburb
Palestinian refugees’ loyalty split between Syrian regime, opposition
Smoke rises up from the site of intense fighting between the Syrian military and the Free Syrian Army at a military base in Tal Sheen, Syria, on Saturday. (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)
December 16, 2012, 5:49 pm
Syrian air force reportedly kills dozens in bombing of Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus
Fatah, Hamas condemn Assad government for the first time following airstrike on Yarmouk
By Ilan Ben Zion and AP
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