article_snippet.sent: the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus has been subjected to intense shelling and airstrikes by government warplanes allegedly carrying barrel bombs.
article_snippet.sent: This morning activists said shelling and sporadic clashes are striking the Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital, a situation a U.N. official describes as 'beyond inhumane.'
article_snippet.sent: Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in an area just south of Damascus, said the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus witnessed sporadic clashes and shelling earlier today.
article_snippet.sent: Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, last night said that the U.N. agency has not been able to send any food nor any convoys into the Yarmouk camp in south Damascus since the current round of fighting started. '
article_snippet.sent: Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in an area just south of Damascus, said the Yarmouk camp (pictured) witnessed sporadic clashes and shelling earlier today .
article_snippet.sent: The UN says around 18,000 civilians, including a large number of children, are trapped in Yarmouk (pictured) Speaking of Hamas-linked groups' clashes with ISIS in the Yarmouk camp (pictured), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that residents of Yarmouk have been victimized by Syria's civil war.
article_snippet.sent: The UN says around 18,000 civilians, including a large number of children, are trapped in Yarmouk.
article_snippet.sent: the Yarmouk camp (pictured) has been under government siege for nearly two years, leading to starvation and illnesses caused by lack of medical aid.
article_snippet.sent: the Yarmouk camp (pictured) has also witnessed several rounds of ferocious and deadly fighting between government forces and militants.