Syria: for first time in months, UN agency delivers aid to residents of Yarmouk camp
Feb 15, 2016, at 01:53 pm
New York, Feb 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The United Nations relief agency charged with the well-being of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East has been able to deliver urgently needed humanitarian supplies to the civilian residents of the besieged refugee camp of Yarmouk, on the outskirts Damascus, for the first time in nine months.
Three new suspected cases of typhoid near Yarmouk camp in Syria
Sep 24, 2015, at 02:08 pm
New York, Sept 24 (IBNS) Following humanitarian operations in the southern Syrian town of Yalda, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said it has identified three new suspected cases of typhoid.
Syria: UN agency discovers nine suspected cases of typhoid near Yarmouk camp
Sep 03, 2015, at 02:44 pm
New York, Sep 3 (IBNS): Following humanitarian operations in the southern Syrian town of Yalda, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said it has identified nine new suspected cases of typhoid and one case of scabies.
Syria: UNRWA reaches near Yarmouk camp as typhoid outbreak hits Palestinian refugees
Aug 20, 2015, at 02:28 pm
New York, Aug 20 (IBNS): The United Nations relief agency responsible for the welfare of Palestine refugees across the Middle East announced on Wednesday it has conducted its first humanitarian mission to Yalda, near the besieged Yarmouk camp in Syria, where six cases of typhoid have been confirmed.
UN renews call for end to fighting inside Yarmouk camp, urges opening of humanitarian corridor
Apr 09, 2015, at 05:52 pm
New York, Apr 9 (IBNS): The situation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk remains extremely tense amid continued street fighting and unconfirmed reports of aerial bombardments of civilian areas, the United Nations said Wednesday.
Syria: Palestinian students allowed to leave Yarmouk camp
May 20, 2014, at 05:20 pm
New York, May 20 (IBNS): Amid a "dire" situation in the Yarmouk refugee camp where thousands of civilians have been and hiding from snipers and often eating weeds to survive, the United Nations agency that administers aid to Palestinian refugees across the Middle East has confirmed that 120 students were allowed to do what anywhere else would generate few headlines - take school exams.