On December 16, two years ago, there was a rumbling in the skies above the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk. It was the roar of Bashar al Assads MiG fighter jets. In a glimpse of what would eventually become commonplace, the aerial bombing targeted a hospital, a mosque and a school, slaughtering dozens in the process. The very next day, oppositional fighters entered the refugee camp. There is of course much more to the story, the context that surrounds this particular slaughter, all that happened before those jets rained devastation on Yarmouk. There are the protests, the long disputes about the camps neutrality, the regime allied PFLP-GCs occupation of the camp. There is also the aftermath: the bombings, the arrests, the harassment and the siege, the calamitous siege, which began the day the rebels entered the camp and will soon reach its two-year anniversary.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:00:00 +0000
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