article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of residents of the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus fled yesterday amid shelling by government forces and clashes between ISIS fighters and Palestinian militants, activists said.
article_snippet.sent: An activist based in an area just south of Damascus, Hatem al-Dimashqi, said many residents started fleeing the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus after midnight as the fighting let up.
article_snippet.sent: The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and al-Dimashqi said the refugees who have fled the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus have reached the southern Damascus suburbs of Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem, which are under the control of anti-Assad rebels.
article_snippet.sent: al-Dimashqi and Syrian state TV said as many as 2,000 people have left the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus.
article_snippet.sent: Al-Dimashqi and Syrian state TV said that many of those who fled the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus are staying in schools or abandoned homes.
article_snippet.sent: Most of the Yarmouk camp (pictured)'s estimated 160,000 inhabitants fled in late 2012 as clashes erupted between pro- and anti-Assad Palestinian gunmen.
article_snippet.sent: The majority of those who left fled to overcrowded and destitute Palestinian refugee camps in neighboring Lebanon.