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UN on the ground at Yarmouk camp in Syria

2014-02-25 119 Dailymotion

A U.N. official visits the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees near Damascus Monday.<br/> <br />Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations' relief and development agency for Palestinian refugees in the near east, surveys the situation.<br/> <br />6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL, FILIPPO GRANDI, SAYING:<br/> <br />"What is very important now is that the access that we have to the people becomes a daily occurrence, simple occurrence and that progressively we can expand our reach because there are thousands of people still inside that have not received the assistance."<br/> <br />Rebel forces reached an agreement last week to make the Yarmouk camp a fighting-free area.<br/> <br />The U.N. says it has distributed more than 6,000 food parcels in Yarmouk since mid-January, a level it says falls well short of the needs of 18,000 residents after months of hunger and deprivation.<br/> <br />Humanitarian efforts in Syria have been hampered by fighting and by combatants on both sides,

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