More than 700 Palestinians killed in Syria conflict

More than 700 Palestinians have bee killed in Syria since conflict erupted there close to two years ago. Palestine Liberation Organization official Zacharia al-Agha said they have asked Syrian authorities to refrain from dragging Palestinians into the conflict. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has estimated that the fighting has cost at least 44,000 lives. The Palestinian deaths include those in the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus. On Sunday, December 23, several rockets were fired into the camp which has been the site of pro- and anti-regime forces the past week. Syria claimed its military was not part of the fighting and did not intervene militarily “in any way.”

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A related story on an airstrike on a bakery in Syria – one of the deadliest incidents of the conflict that killed more than 60 people – is also on Rappler.