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Yarmuk R.C.: YARMOUK CAMP

Posted by Hisham on June 19, 2008

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YARMOUK CAMP

Yarmouk, which is an *"unofficial" camp, is home to the largest Palestine refugee community in Syria. It lies 8 kilometres from the centre of Damascus and is inside the city boundaries.

Yarmouk resembles an urban quarter, and it looks very different from the other Palestine refugee concentrations in Syria. Yarmouk was established in 1957 on an area of 2,110,000 square metres to accommodate refugees who were squatters. Although, not recognized as a camp, the road signs read: Mukhayam al-Yarmouk (Arabic for Yarmouk camp).

Over the years, the refugees have improved their shelters and added more rooms to them. Today, the camp is crowded with cement block homes and narrow streets, and is densely populated. Two main roads lined with shops and crammed with service taxis and microbuses run through Yarmouk.

Many of the refugees in Yarmouk are professional, working as doctors, engineers and civil servants. Others are employed as casual labourers and street vendors. Overall, living conditions in Yarmouk appear to be far better than those of the other Palestine refugee camps in Syria



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Refugees who were squatters? I dont get it. So they were squatters yet they were rewarded with the best refugee camp for being squatters? Doesnt make any sence. Or its me who have missunderstood what the word squatters stand for...
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Syria has in general been good to the Palestinian refugees. Syria allowed the refugees to work, study and be part of the society without attempting to make them forget that they are Palestinian or the Right of return as was the case in Jordan.
 
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