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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Yarmouk refugee camp

People pray by the grave of a relative in a damaged cemetery at the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in the south of Damascus on December 14, 2024. (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
December 17, 2024, 1:29 pm
Palestinians in Syria flock to cemetery ravaged and made off-limits under Assad
Relatives strive to locate graves amid piles of rubble and smashed tombstones left in Yarmouk burial ground outside Damascus
By Maher Al Mounes
Israeli spy Eli Cohen in Syria in the 1960s. (PMO)
December 17, 2024, 3:09 am
Israel working via Russia to find Eli Cohen’s remains in Syria, Palestinian sources say
Following Assad’s fall, Palestinian officials tell AFP that mediators also contacted them about locating body of a soldier who has been missing since 1982 battle
By AFP
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
Zachary Baumel. (JTA/Courtesy Miriam Baumel)
April 4, 2019, 3:59 pm
Inside the 37-year search for IDF soldier Zachary Baumel
Vast amount of piecemeal data eventually led army’s missing persons unit to specific location, where it directed the Russian military; efforts to find 2 more servicemen ongoing
By Judah Ari Gross
Zachary Baumel. (JTA/Courtesy Miriam Baumel)
April 3, 2019, 11:03 pm
Terror group said Baumel’s body found in Damascus camp, more remains recovered
Commander of PFLP-GC terror group says Israeli intelligence coordinated operation to repatriate remains of Zachary Baumel, missing since 1982 Lebanon War, via Turkey
By ToI Staff
Prichya Heyman, whose brother, IDF soldier Yehuda Katz, has been missing since 1982 (screen capture: Channel 12)
April 3, 2019, 10:01 pm
As body of soldier returned, family of missing comrade holds out hope
Hours after body of Zachary Baumel repatriated to Israel, sister of Yehuda Katz says they continue to wait for soldier who went missing during same 1982 battle
By ToI Staff
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
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)
October 7, 2018, 6:44 pm
Clearing the rubble in Syria’s Palestinian Yarmouk camp
The built-up residential area was once home to 160,000 residents; today, it is a post-apocalyptic vista of bombed-out buildings
By AP and ToI Staff
A general view showing the destruction in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, April 6, 2015. (AFP/STR)
May 20, 2018, 1:10 pm
Islamic State surrendering in Syria’s capital — report
Capture of Damascus’s southern neighborhoods would bring the entire city under government control for first time since 2011
By AP
In this photo released on April 30, 2018, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian government forces gather in front of a bus carries al-Qaida-linked fighters during an evacuation from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP)
May 20, 2018, 1:30 am
Syria and IS reach truce after south Damascus battles
Rights group says ceasefire, which may be a prelude to the evacuation of Islamic State fighters from area that includes Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, still in effect
By AFP
Syrian civilians and rebels, who were evacuated from the Qabun district in northeast Damascus, arrive at a temporary camp in the northern countryside of Idlib province on May 15, 2017. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
May 15, 2017, 2:04 pm
Syria regime nears total recapture of Damascus
Rebels evacuate 3 of the last city districts under their control, shattering dreams of seizing capital and toppling Assad regime
By Sammy Ketz
A general view showing the destruction in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, April 6, 2015. (AFP/STR)
October 18, 2016, 1:52 pm
IS said to destroy grave of Fatah terror chief Abu Jihad in Syria
Bulldozing of tombs in Yarmouk refugee camp denounced by senior PA officials amid call to bring bodies to burial in West Bank
By ToI Staff
Residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Feb. 4, 2014 (photo credit: AP/SANA)
May 12, 2016, 9:36 pm
UNRWA: One in five Palestinians in Syria have fled country
UN Palestinian refugee agency says of 560,000 Palestinians in Syria before the war, some 120,000 left the war-torn country
By AFP
A general view showing the destruction in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, April 6, 2015. (AFP/STR)
April 22, 2016, 11:44 pm
PLO: IS close to ousting al-Qaeda ally from Palestinian camp in Syria
Official says jihadists take 90% of territory held by al-Nusra Front after weeks of clashes; UNRWA: Conditions in Yarmouk are dire
By AFP
Zahran Allouch, deceased head of the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army) Syrian rebel group on July 21, 2015 (Amer Almohibany/AFP)
December 27, 2015, 12:19 am
Top rebel’s death in Syria reshuffles deck ahead of talks
Assassination of Army of Islam leader Zahran Allouch may also delay pullout of militants from Damascus neighborhoods
By Zeina Karam
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