article_snippet.sent: Besieged and bombed by Syrian forces for more than two years, the desperate residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria awoke in early April to a new, even more terrifying reality -- ISIS militants seizing Yarmouk after defeating several militia groups operating in the area.
article_snippet.sent: The Islamic State is now in control of almost all the camp.
article_snippet.sent: The camp, which sits just 6 miles from central Damascus, has been engulfed in fighting between the Syrian government and armed groups since December 2012.
article_snippet.sent: The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front control about 90% of the camp.
article_snippet.sent: The organization also claims that the Syrian government has dropped barrel bombs on the camp in an effort to drive out armed groups.
article_snippet.sent: Hundreds have been injured, but the camp's only functioning hospital was first occupied by ISIS, then targeted last week by regime shelling.
article_snippet.sent: the camp's only functioning hospital was bombed yesterday, so there's really nothing functioning.
article_snippet.sent: they didn't do anything except [rename] Yarmouk Camp as 'Yarmouk Islamic State.'
highlights_snippet.sent: ISIS has seized control of large parts of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria .
  