| Publication |
2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
With all of Syria engulfed since spring 2011 in spiraling destruction, the fate of the
country's small Palestinian population receives scant attention. This report
focuses on that community through the lens of Damascus's Yarmuk camp, the
largest Palestinian concentration in the country. Starting with the 2011 Nakba
and Naksa Day demonstrations, the report provides a detailed account of how
the camp has lived the turmoil, highlighting in particular its determined efforts
to preserve its neutrality and the factors that ultimately led to the fatal entry of
the Free Syrian Army (FSA) into Yarmuk in December 2012. The ethnographic
portrait of Syria's Palestinians before the uprising, their life in the camp
(including the role of the factions), their privileges and unique integration, makes
what the author sees as the destruction of the community even more tragic.
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